Word: existence
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Unfortunately, the files don't always come through. In fact, frequently the files don't exist...
...Press; 586 pages; $25), Gaddis practically rebuilds the Tower of Babel from the sounds and furies of the late 20th century. Drunken soliloquies, air-brained chatter and large, heavy blocks of legal gibberish are piled atop one another. One character is haunted by the thought that "reality may not exist at all except in the words in which it presents itself" -- which would mean that there's lots of it, and it doesn't always fit together...
...shore up the S&L's finances. In support of that petition, Richard Massey, another member of the Rose firm, wrote two letters. One, in June, acknowledged inferentially that Madison did not meet federally mandated cash requirements but cheerily asserted that "the applicant anticipates that no deficiency will exist in the near future." The next month Massey advised that Madison "anticipates . . . improvement of its financial condition and services provided to customers." Massey told the Associated Press that he was merely passing on what he was told by Madison management...
Arthur joined TIME in 1985 after working at the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, where he served as both the editor and the art director of that paper's Sunday magazine. Word people and design people are not supposed to get along, but Arthur seems to co-exist with himself quite happily. He is famous in our halls for the very good headlines he comes up with for covers and page layouts and the very bad puns ("The Vegas Notion" for our recent cover on the Nevada gambling mecca) that he sticks in as dummy copy...
...market. Even there the predictions are rosy. "We may be a little bit ahead of the curve," says Brian Fargo, the president of Interplay Productions, whose MacPlay software division distributes Gabriel's Xplora 1. "But I think this will be a brand-new market segment that didn't even exist before. It's no longer a question of whether this format will take off but when. I'd say within a year or so it will be a CD-ROM world...