Word: displays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Judging by these efforts, says Alan Kay, a techie visionary whose design work led to the Macintosh's easy-to-use screen display, "the computer revolution hasn't happened yet." Kay maintains that the computer is not a tool or an instrument but a medium, and he cites communications guru Marshall McLuhen's dictum that all new forms of media take their initial content from what preceded them. "Everything that we do on a computer is a simulation," says Kay. "Right now, we're still simulating paper...
...Kundera character does display some disarming modesty. He admits that novels, of whatever sort, are not in much demand except as fodder: "The present era grabs everything that was ever written in order to transform it into films, TV programs, or cartoons." Therefore, "if a person is still crazy enough to write novels nowadays and wants to protect them, he has to write them in such a way that they cannot be adapted, in other words, in such a way that they cannot be retold." The person to whom he is talking responds, "When I hear you, I just hope...
...story about contemporary neuroses, Kundera has fabricated a context in which everything, literally, can be claimed to matter. What is more, the author indulges this obsessiveness without ever droning or turning out a dull page. In its inventiveness and its dazzling display of what written words can convey, Immortality gives fiction back its good name...
...just 12,000 vehicles. Still, Saturn added a second shift last week, and plans to have 106 showrooms open nationwide by the end of the month. Many shoppers seem pleased by what they have seen of the front-wheel-drive compact. Says Michael Russell, 28, an Atlanta sales-display manager, who was on the verge of buying a Saturn last week: "It's the most car for the money...
...gulf war, the first crisis of Bush's NWO, was in fact a display case for the weaknesses and the strengths of typical American behavior. Our pussyfooting diplomacy before the invasion of Kuwait was intended to be a simple lawyerly proposition. Because we wanted to be honest brokers, we assured Saddam that we had no position on the precise location of the Iraq- Kuwait border. The only problem with our offer was that Saddam, who is not a Wasp lawyer, took it to mean that we didn't care whether there was an Iraq- Kuwait border...