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...cities, Sennett argues, obliterate value instead of creating it. Beguilingly democratic, they neutralize unequal and unpredictable landscapes with grid patterns that provide useful chessboards for economic competition. The standardizing grids expand not just outwards, but upwards, in skyscrapers whose sixth floors and 60th floors are identical, as well as across time, thanks to the modern invention of clocks to "cut time into meaningless fragments of deadening routine...
Like many New Yorkers, Sennett sometimes fails to put the city in context. Non-urban areas are blank spaces on his world map, merely waiting to be filled in by the encroaching grid. The city is never presented as an alternative location among many. Sennett's arguments would have been strengthened, for example, had he considered the role of the wilderness as the accepted zone for today's spiritual quests. Surely the modern citydweller's solitary journey to the mountains or the ocean in search of meaning and fulfillment is in a fundamental way a pessimistic, escapist denial...
...first company to build a clipboard computer, but earlier versions were limited in their uses. Grid, a division of Tandy, has sold 10,000 of its $2,370 GridPads to people who have to spend a lot of time filling out forms, including pharmacists, pollsters and bridge inspectors. Sony and Canon have been selling similar devices in Japan, and virtually every & other computer manufacturer is working...
...based computers. Rather than make the machines itself, the company hopes it can license its elegant control software, called PenPoint, to computer manufacturers who would in turn pay Go royalties. Among the firms that are expected to begin shipping PenPoint models within the next six to 12 months: Grid, NCR and the biggest computer maker of them all, IBM. The machines will probably sell for $4,000 to $6,000. Microsoft -- the software giant based in Redmond, Wash., that has supplied IBM's operating systems in the past -- has ideas of its own, however. It is set to introduce...
...reflection reduced to one bulging eye and blond Veronica Lake tresses. But Pousette-Dart was a stiff, poor draftsman, with the deficiencies of the self-taught, and this makes the early totemic paintings, with their biomorphic shapes playing hide-and-seek in the rigid scaffolding of a Cubist grid, look somewhat less than fully achieved...