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Programmers therefore give the machine a dictionary of words that can be more than one part of speech. For all such words, the computer flashes the choices on a screen. A trained observer points to the correct choice in that context with a special "light pen" and the computer eradicates all other choices...
...When the same word appears again later on in the same work, the machine assumes that the same meaning is most likely to be desired; so it projects this choice more brightly than all the others, and will automatically use that meaning unless the observer indicates otherwise with his pen...
...phenomenon known as "transparency." A tool is transparent if the user is aware of the problem he is trying to solve, not of the mechanics of the operation. When you write, for example, you don't worry about the way the paper was made or how your pen works (unless it runs out of ink). When you make a phone call, you are hardly conscious of the complex path followed by the electrical impulses. Only if the line is busy do you appreciate the vehicle of communication...
...MARTIAL RAYSSE, 30, is a Frenchman who, in his addiction to brightness, persuaded his wife to wear fluorescent-hued shoes. Then, he says, "I found neon. It is living color, a color beyond color. The pen and the brush are outdated." He thinks of himself not as pop or op but as "a neon-realist." Says he: "I want everything in my work to be good-looking and brand-new. If you draw a Picasso and put neon on it, you don't have anything new." Raysse has fallen in love with painting in light: "Neon most accurately expresses...
...sugar industries. He was at his best when he gave in to his sense of humor. Of lower-class Hawaiians traveling on an inter-island schooner, he reported that "as soon as we set sail the natives all laid down on deck as thick as Negroes in a slave pen, and smoked and conversed and captured vermin and ate them, spit on each other, and were truly sociable." Hawaiian oranges were delicious, although "I seldom eat more than 10 or 15 at a sitting, however, because I despise to see anybody gormandize...