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...Novelist Carol Spearin Mc-Cauley notes in her book Computers and Creativity (Praeger) that the well-programmed computer is freed from "the confines of English grammar, syntax and common usage ... The machine's lack of shame, so to speak, frees it to express many things that a writer, by habit used to excluding or censoring the ungrammatical, awkward or ambiguous, would not consider." Marie Boroff, an English professor at Yale, acted as muse to a computer that produced these near-erotic lines...
...neighborhood where spending vast sums quickly is a habit of nobility, the Saudis and Iranians are truly princes, if not kings. There is the story about the two Saudi princesses who, with their bodyguard, arrived late one Friday demanding to get in touch with the Bank of America, though the bank was closed. Soon, however, the bank delivered, in a special car, an envelope containing $200,000?shopping money for Saturday. Another Saudi princess recently walked into Giorgio, picked up $30,000 worth of dresses in a couple of hours, then with a flourish gave the owner's wife...
...passes would be dropped, quarterbacks sacked, or egregiously erroneous calls made by officials. Milder side effects include the opening of phantom beer cans and hurriedly placed phone calls to bookies for a nonexistent point spread. After a six-month diet of football, the American public must shake a national habit, and the transition is not easy. In the home of the Super Bowl Champion Dallas Cowboys, for example, police report more than twice the daily average of violent assaults on the Sunday after the football season ends. Spats between spouses can take a nasty turn. Old scores are apparently settled...
...paying my way through medical school and I had to do something to earn a lot of money fast," Crichton said in explanation of his habit of writing novels while in medical school...
...understood the necessity of breaking free from old patterns of custom, expectation, even divine ordination. Jefferson suggested as much: "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past." Less elegantly, Henry Ford decided: "History is more or less bunk." Civilization of necessity operates by habit. But that process can groove the collective cortex into fatal designs-the ritual-hatreds of Arabs and Israelis, for example...