Word: insightful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BOTTOM LINE: A posthumous account of promise gone wrong, told by a master of insight and irony...
...slave Cambridge, Phillips realized, simply could not accommodate contemporary conceptions of Black assimilation and resistance. "If you were a slave in the nineteenth century and you had the power of self-expression and self-insight that would be necessary to write the way Cambridge does, there was a good chance you'd acquired those skills from the Bible. [So] there was a damned good chance you were a dyed-in-the-wool Christian, and [that] you had a very strange and haughty and self-regarding view of yourself vis a vis the other slaves. You would think you were better...
...that will act as video and information libraries. Such software companies as Microsoft and Apple want to build the operating systems that will serve as the data highway's traffic cops, controlling the flow of information to and from each viewer's screen. Meanwhile, TV Guide is racing against InSight, TV Answer and Discovery Communications to design electronic navigators that will tell viewers what's on TV and where to find...
...cable-TV companies, the key insight came in the fall of 1987, when $ cable engineers demonstrated that coaxial wire could carry information quite effectively over short distances; in fact, for a quarter-mile or so, it has almost as much bandwidth as fiber. They pointed out that by using fiber to bring the signal to within a few blocks of each home and coaxial cable to carry it the rest of the way, the cable companies could get a "twofer": they could throw away those cranky amplifiers (giving them a system that has more capacity and is easier to maintain...
...like Cisneros. I like the individuality of their work, and I wish them well. I'd like to see [Cisneros] write a book about going to England. I think literature should do two things at least culturally, and that is to preserve the culture, but also get some insight as to how the culture interacts with other generations, with another culture, and also about the inner life of the writers. My only fear is that writers delegate themselves to this corner bodega. To escape the provincialism of roots and be expansive in the manner of a wonderful writer like [Jose...