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...Deep Blue and its progeny will be able to hold more information than one individual could ever dream of seeing in his or her lifetime. We already have to take so much of the technological world for granted. Much of it is magic to us for all that we pretend to understand it through science. How many of us actually know how a telephone works or a how a videocassette records? Slowly, knowledge and information have been slipping form our grasp...
...like to work at TIME, Calvin Trillin's 1980 novel, Floater, is required reading. The story of a hapless writer at a national weekly newsmagazine suspiciously like this one, it skewers some of TIME's most revered traditions, including this very page. Though Trillin now tries to pretend that Floater is "made up," he in fact gathered inside information during nearly three years on TIME's staff. In 1960, after graduating from Yale and serving in the Army, he joined the Atlanta bureau, reporting on the civil rights movement. He then moved to New York, where he became a "floater...
...audience (several audience members drew close their valuables or else took out change to give the actors, assuming they were authentic), the sum effect is one of deranged imbalance. This is especially true when a jazz band takes the stage and the homeless pair perform a choreographed dance and pretend to be playing along on tubes shaped like saxophones and guitars. The scene is perplexing, pointless, and childishly extreme...
People who like and admire Bob Dole see in these moments the essence of their man. He is too decent to pretend to be someone he's not, too circumspect to slobber over someone else's baby, and plenty proud of the concrete things he has done to improve the lives of working families like the Dirkses. The people who aren't so sure they like Bob Dole see once again the National Mortician, brusque, impenetrable, embalmed by Washington, who looks like it hurts to smile...
...excavation was the unmistakable trail of a human body that had been dragged. The ribbon of blood and brain bits petered out. "It was a terrible recognition," he says. "I was shaking, and I lost myself for a few moments. But I had to go on and pretend everything was usual." As he tells it, later "the mountain of earth grew," and "then one day at the end of June or early July, it was flattened and apparently sown, because after a while it looked like a green soccer field...