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...Amos would never do anything as simple as presenting women as victims of male songwriters, or even as victorious over misogynist songwriters. Her take on 10cc’s “I’m Not in Love” turns a slightly cutesy heartbreak ballad into a mechanist over-you diatribe worthy of Kraftwerk in its soulless accompaniment. She deadpans so flawlessly that there really is no doubt about her feelings towards the unfortunate subject of her song—let us hope he can peel himself off the pavement before anyone else comes...

Author: By Andrew R. Iliff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tori! Tori! Tori! | 9/20/2001 | See Source »

Michael Idvorsky Pupin, 73, Columbia electro-mechanist, the John Fritz Medal; for his accomplishments in electromagnetism, particularly long distance telephony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Honors | 3/14/1932 | See Source »

Comments. Dr. Michael Idvorsky Pupin, outstanding U. S. electro-mechanist, said: "Sir Oliver Lodge has his ether doing wonderful things. But I don't believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Leeds | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

That, according to famed Electro-Mechanist Michael Idvorsky Pupin of Columbia University: "No rich man in the United States should die without leaving something to Johns Hopkins, the pioneer university of the United States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Jag | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

...denounced his professor for a long list of assigned reading on the ground that it was the professor's duty to do the reading himself and report its content to the class. A fact in the notebook is worth two in the head is the watchword of the educational mechanist. And there is of course great truth in the principle for facts in the notebook are convenient when approaching examination prescribes review, and they don't get in the way afterward...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FEEDERS OF FACTS | 3/31/1926 | See Source »

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