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...ring cannot be subtle. Its mission is disruption. The phone is the instrument we were issued for a march into the age of discontinuity. The telephone call is a breaking-and-entering that we invite by having telephones in the first place. Someone unbidden barges in and for an instant or an hour usurps the ears and upsets the mind's prior arrangements. Life proceeds in particles, not waves. The author Cyril Connolly wrote lugubriously about the sheer intimacy of intrusion that a telephone can manage. "Complete physical union between two people is the rarest sensation which life can provide...
...back to the U.S. in chains is a similar callow triumphalist flourish by President George Bush, the former wimp. Modern media saved Bush the necessity of lugging Noriega in a cage to future summits and election rallies. That prison mug shot of the humiliated former dictator became an instant worldwide image...
...breeders at times are hard-pressed to keep up with demand. Two Californians, pig fanciers Kayla Mull and Lorrie Blackburn, have published a paperback guide to the care and feeding of potbellies, and there is even a Pig Hotline (415-879-0061) where owners can get instant answers to porky puzzles...
...provocative menus and often with fanciful decorative themes devised by hip designers, became a form of impromptu theater for tuned-in young foodies and grazers. Two years ago, some of the diners-out began to drop out, abandoning the scene to turn into couch potatoes. But their need for instant, easy sustenance fostered another trend: take-out food...
...Sistine Chapel project was a breakthrough that made believers of the skeptics. Even the Vatican's chief restorer, Gianluigi Colalucci, concedes that future computers will recall in an instant visual information that used to require years of research, including, he adds with a laugh, "the errors we are making now." But more important, the restoration marked the beginning of the Italian art establishment's love affair with technology. Nowadays, computers linked up to gamma-ray detectors, infrared cameras and thermographic sensors are turning up in art-restoration projects all across Italy, from the vast ruins of Pompeii to the crowded...