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...deathbed was a kind of proscenium, from which the personage could issue one last dramatic utterance, full of the compacted significance of his life. Last words were to sound as if all of the individual's earthly time had been sharpened to that point: he could now etch the grand summation. "More light!" the great Goethe of the Enlightenment is said to have cried as he expired. There is some opinion, however, that what he actually said was "Little wife, give me your little...
...that wanted to ship the device to West Germany. U.S. Customs in Washington confirmed that the document was a fake. Agents began watching the officers of the Denver concern, Norman Cormerford and Bruce Adamski, who had ordered a $54,000 krypton laser from another manufacturer. That device, used to etch computer microchips, was also bound for West Germany...
High-technology entrepreneurs like to boast that their business is nonpolluting and environmentally sound. But every industry carries environmental risks, and electronics is no exception. The manufacture of computer chips, for example, requires acid baths (to etch microscopic circuits onto tiny ceramic wafers) and vats of industrial cleaning fluids (to wash away extraneous specks). And where there are powerful chemicals, waste-storage difficulties are not far behind...
Fusco was, from the start, considered a first rate defenseman, destined to etch his mark in College sports history. But the squad he started with as a freshman was so dismal it seemed he would never garner more than individual trophies...
...quite the appropriate term For Cheever has, over his career, penned more arabesques than stories. Moorish in their conspicuous lack of breathing things, these works give the feeling that their "characters" are really the pointed little white spots that move in geometrically predestined directions across an oversized etch-a-sketch board. The spots, typically upper middle class suburban or uptown New York spots, meander, speedup and decelerate as they course ineluctably through the turns Ultimately, the design ties itself off with a sudden bizarre crook--a child gets shredded by a ski lift, a husband is shot by his wife...