Word: pawning
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...desolation with which Willy marvels at next-door neighbor Bernard's success: "Your friends have their own private tennis court?" What emerges most clearly in this version is Miller's critique of capitalism: Willy is less a tragic figure brought down by his flaws than the pawn of a system that sells a dream, then cannot deliver...
...then I got to thinking. Baseball has never had a real commissioner, at least not since Judge Landis back in the '20s and '30s. Every one, from Chandler to Ueberroth, has been a pawn of the owners, and the two since then are either deposed or no longer with...
...making him seem ill-bred, makes him steer the boat while he has sex with Marg-- makes him hard to like by any standards. The hapless Marg is wholly pitiable, toting around a guitar to which she croons mercilessly, plotting out her book on Fra Angelica, becoming a pawn in Philipe and Tom's rivalry and being utterly unable to fight back. The weakness of her character and even of her facial features is evident when compared to Tom and Philipe's strengths, and though one feels sorry for her helplessness, one can't help but see the Darwinian logic...
...Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Hartzler, plan to lay the crime squarely at the feet of Nichols and McVeigh, two Army buddies immersed in the furies and paranoia of the extreme right wing. Jones plans to go global, arguing to the jury that his client is just a pawn in a conspiracy so vast that even he's not sure yet just what...
Later I discovered the truth. Deep Blue's computational powers were so great that it did in fact calculate every possible move all the way to the actual recovery of the pawn six moves later. The computer didn't view the pawn sacrifice as a sacrifice at all. So the question is, If the computer makes the same move that I would make for completely different reasons, has it made an "intelligent" move? Is the intelligence of an action dependent on who (or what) takes...