Word: driverants
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cops in Blue Earth County, Minn., like those in many other places, carry laptops that enable them to tap into a statewide database and find out if a driver they've stopped for a traffic violation has any arrest warrants outstanding. The officers make 10 to 12 arrests a week, vs. two or three in pre-laptop days. That might count as measurable productivity, but how to quantify the benefit to society of haling lawbreakers into court rather than letting them roam free...
...haven't they? In Gordon's view, "what keeps computers from being truly productive is that these damn human beings keep getting in the way." Many jobs cannot be fully automated: "Planes will always need two pilots and trucks a driver." Computers cannot replace beauticians, gardeners or restaurant chefs. Moreover, there is the law of diminishing returns: the latest PCs do not represent as great an advance over earlier computers as the first did over typewriters, or as typewriters did over writing by hand. Says Gordon: "I cannot type or think any faster than I did with my first personal...
...puts it. Like most members of the town's minority community, Clement never wanted to go to Duke Hospital because it was viewed as a place where "they experimented on you." In 1968, when he was badly bruised in a head-on car collision, Clement screamed at the ambulance driver, "Don't take me to Duke! I don't want to go to Duke...
...humanity, the opera singer. Tenors are uncommonly stupid; divas, when they are not scarfing down pasta, are outrageously unreliable. The imperious troublemaker Kathleen Battle, feeling chilly in a limo in Los Angeles, is said to have telephoned her manager in New York City and ordered him to call her driver to ask him to turn down the air conditioning. A nervous Deborah Voigt, waiting backstage for her entrance, absentmindedly ate a prop chicken. Opera buffs will munch happily too on these nuggets...
...play has no explicit sex (and very little implicit) and no cheap lampooning of the Greatest Story Ever Told. Indeed, Corpus Christi is a serious, even reverent retelling of the Christ story in a modern idiom--quite close, in its way, to the original. Jesus heals a truck driver of leprosy, raises Lazarus from the dead and predicts his own betrayal at the Last Supper. ("He's drunk, guys," says an Apostle. "It's the wine talking.") If the point is to make Jesus' teachings live for a contemporary audience, activist Christians should be hailing this play, not trying...