Word: imperfectionable
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As in her politicized music, there is little room in No Disrespect for human frailty and indecision in her vision of herself. Souljah touches self-consciously on many of the social, political and psychological issues that keep Oprah and Ricky on top in the ratings. She is brutal and exacting...
Word of the flaw in Intel's Pentium chip, the powerful new brain in 4 million personal computers sold this year, began circulating before Thanksgiving. But the manufacturing problem was nothing compared with the flaw in Intel's understanding of how to keep good customer relations. Having kept the defect...
Just who needed protection was not clear. The Pentium's imperfection affects division problems involving numbers with many digits. For example, if 4,195,835 is divided by 3,145,727 and then multiplied by 3,145,727, the result should be the original number: 4,195,835. It doesn...
The last segment of the exhibition, "Lodestones," summarizes the artists' facetious view of breast augmentation. Two ridiculously enormous breasts with noticeably small nipples sit on a slightly elevated platform. They are unevenly shaped to exaggerate the hideous imperfection of breast augmentation. The audience visualizes a reclining woman, as the breasts...
Nicholson Baker's brand of soft-core porn is better written than is usual for such naughty stuff, and now and again the suggestion is made that what he is writing is mainstream fiction. Or even, in the case of Vox (1992) -- his long transcription of an entirely satisfying anonymous...