Word: fittingly
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...paper capable of reproducing sounds that had been either hand-played by a pianist or simply punched by a roll editor, such as Frank Milne, whose spectacular four-hand arrangement of An American in Paris concludes the CD. Early rolls, played by a device called a Pianola, which fit over a conventional keyboard, were primitive affairs, capable of reproducing notes but little else; much depended on the Pianola's operator, who manipulated knobs and levers and pumped a foot bellows to make the contraption work. Later player pianos put the mechanism inside the instrument, and more sophisticated "reproducing rolls," manufactured...
...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...
Where, then, does Whitewater fit in? It's different -- or could be -- because the wrongdoing (if there was any) may have involved abuses of power while Clinton was serving as Governor of Arkansas. On the other hand, Whitewater too is from the past. So even if the worst were proved -- and no one yet knows what that is -- the offense might not warrant impeachment. Even proof of an ethical lapse by then Governor Clinton is not likely to harm him as much as an error committed during his presidency, such as the unproved allegation that he recently dangled...
...seems especially true in this case. The affairs of Whitewater and its partners -- the Clintons, James McDougal, the owner of a failed Arkansas savings and loan, and his wife Susan -- were so convoluted that they defy quick summary. Even the questions that the dealings raise are too complex to fit on a bumper sticker. The press and television paid almost no attention until recently, and then largely because it developed that a file relating to Whitewater had been removed from the office of White House counsel Vincent Foster after he committed suicide last July (that file...
Someday, says Harvard molecular biologist Walter Gilbert, that diary -- the entire genetic record -- will fit on a single CD-ROM. "We look upon ourselves as having an infinite potential," he writes in The Code of Codes. "To recognize that we are determined, in a certain sense, by a finite collection of information that is knowable will change our view of ourselves. It is the closing of an intellectual frontier, with which we will have to come to terms...