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...cover 13 miles between charges and can zip along at 15 m.p.h., which feels fast enough when you're so close to the ground. The machine has two safety features that I particularly appreciate. You need a key to start it, which is good when you have so many curious underage testers around. And you need to engage the hand brake before you can activate the throttle, which makes it almost impossible to lurch forward inadvertently. Also, the throttle is variable speed, which makes it useful for slow cruising among pedestrians. Indeed, I could see driving this thing to work...
...there anyone you'd like to phone?" Alice is asked in the hospital. "I don't know anyone," she replies. Marber, who doubles as the director, places his characters in pools of light surrounded mostly by darkness. Their isolation is symbolized further by the play's most startling and curious scene: Dan lures Larry into a bogus rendezvous by posing as a sluttish girl in an Internet chat room, their cyberencounter typed out on a giant computer screen onstage...
...time you thought it was the media. Or maybe the swollen federal bureaucracy. Or just possibly the irreducible idiocy of humankind. That is to say, like Neo (Keanu Reeves), the reluctant but deeply curious hero of The Matrix, you had a vague sense that something was not quite right about life as we live it, that something was preventing you from realizing all your potential...
...lessons of Velazquez's Las Meninas, which Sargent had copied in the Prado, sank very deep into his style and would produce curious effects tinged with melancholy, like the brilliant early portrait of the daughters of Edward Darley Boit--four slightly alienated-looking moppets, their white pinafores gleaming in a cavern of bourgeois shadow...
...worm of doubt soon gnawed, and he returned to England in 1929 to declare dramatically that he had got it all wrong the first time. The "later Wittgenstein" spent the next 18 years agonizing in front of a small Cambridge seminar of devoted and transfixed students, who posed curious questions that he then answered--or pointedly did not answer--with wonderfully austere if often enigmatic aphorisms. An obsessive perfectionist, Wittgenstein worked and reworked his notes and left his second masterpiece, Philosophical Investigations, for posthumous publication in 1953. Both books will be required reading as far into the future...