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...merely extending his or her finger, pedestrian can control traffic signals, turning green lights read and bringing cars to a virtual standstill. But how powerful is the cross-walk button? can it really turn a traffic light red or is it simply a ruse devised to calm impatient street-crossers? according to Don Burgess associate traffic engineer at the Boston Department of Transportation, the answer...

Author: By Joshua D. Fine, | Title: For the Moment | 2/24/1994 | See Source »

...working concept of interracial society. "All colors merge into one joyous, sun- stunned flesh-color, coating the sand with a second living skin," writes Updike of Copacabana, the beach where Tristao meets Isabel. In a gesture of courtly love, he presents her with a ring stripped from the finger of a matronly tourist. The initials on the crest are DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution?). Tristao reads that as "to give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Warning: the Rabbit Is Loose | 2/14/1994 | See Source »

...piercing, however, hurt less than slamminga finger in a car door, Millman says, and besides,the pain was worth...

Author: By Olivia F. Gentile, | Title: Noses and Nipples With Holes | 2/12/1994 | See Source »

Humanitarian aid is just a finger in a collapsing dike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazine Contents Page | 2/7/1994 | See Source »

...pure belief in the do-it-yourself, amateur ethic. The ethic showed up in their economic: the original Raincoats LP was one of the first full-length releases on the cooperative Rough Trade label. It showed up in the record's crisp production, in which each movement of fingers along the electric-guitar finger-board, and each breath Gina Birch takes, can be heard. And it showed up in the lack of "technical skill" which informs each musical move: it's normal to say that the Raincoats discovered their style in part because they "couldn't play their instruments...

Author: By Steve L. Burt, | Title: ONE CHORD WONDERS | 2/3/1994 | See Source »

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