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Among the citizens of cyberspace met by Kindel and his crew were "Lusty 212," a private eye turned matchmaker who brings together hundreds of lonely people for cybercompanionship; artist and musician Laurie Anderson, who is using the Internet to send out samples from her latest CD-ROM; and "The Visible Man," a dead criminal who has been sliced ("by what looked like a giant salami-slicing machine," recalls Kindel) into 1,800 pieces, all of them digitally photographed and stored for online inspection by medical students all over the world...
...five years do rather shape the mind, don't they? I'd have thought you'd be far better off agreeing you'd served your stint, and time to find pastures new." Whatever disappointment Tim feels has been assuaged by the love of Emma Manzini, a beautiful, emotionally frail musician half his age who has agreed to live with him. After all his years of spying and secrecy, Tim thinks of her as "my self-imposed security risk, my new openness, my one-girl glasnost...
...tender age of 27, Noam Elkies became Harvard's youngest-ever tenured professor in 19993. But there's more to Elkies than an incredible talent for mathematics--he's an accomplished musician with a unique sense of humor...
...most at home? "I have to sing bass in the Glee Club," he responds, adding that "I have sung tenor under duress, and alto under the influence!" His voice, however, is not Elkies' real forte: "It might still be conceivable [for me] to get a career as a professional musician, but not as a singer...
Cecil Taylor always felt the injustice of his financial situation. While a chamber musician recording the standard repertoire of classical music over and over again could support himself and his family quite nicely in the postwar years, a true innovator like Taylor had to support himself by odd jobs--he sold everything from records to deli sandwiches. However, he had predicted early on that he would eventually earn the salary of a decent chamber musician. By the 1970s, with growing recognition in Europe and Japan, this prediction finally came true...