Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shopping, the housewife should be able to switch on to the local supermarket on the video phone, examine grapefruit and price them, all without stirring from her living room. But among the futurists, fortunately, are skeptics, and they are sure that remote shopping, while entirely feasible, will flop-because women like to get out of the house, like to handle the merchandise, like to be able to change their minds. Not everything that is possible will happen-unless people want it. One thing they almost certainly will want is electronic "information retrieval": the contents of libraries and other forms...
...that page I have written molto vivace." He has, in fact, a kind of built-in Hit Parade network that spins music on request through his inner ear. "At breakfast," says Rubinstein, "I might pass a Brahms symphony in my head. Then I am called to the phone, and half an hour later I find it's been going on all the time and I'm in the third movement...
There may be a valid satirical point of view toward Hollywood half-marriages, or even toward attempted suicide. But Natalie, poking her head in and out of a hissing gas oven to answer phone calls, seems unaware that even the silliest comic character has to believe passionately in her own folly. Deep down, Inside Daisy Clover suffers from a similar lack of faith...
when Wahl saw the colonel coming, he tried to hide in between some sandbags, for he was on the line in a T-shirt, which was not regulation uniform. The colonel dug him out, however, and two hours later he was on the phone with his parents in Stoughton...
...America, we take communications for granted," Jacobs says. "You pick up a phone and can dial anywhere. If you don't like your newspaper, you can switch to another one. In Latin America things don't work that way. Commercial communication often fails...