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Then one winter afternoon, Toad came upon the marvel that changed his life forever. Toad found the word processor. It was to his Selectric as a Ferrari to a gypsy's cart. Toad now thought that his old writing machines were clattering relics of the Industrial Revolution...
...happy life, until one day, Toad, when riding his bicycle in the park, took a disastrous spill. Left thumb broken, arm turned to fossil in a cast, out of which his fingers twiddled uselessly, Toad faced the future. He tried one-handing his word processor, his hand jerking over the keyboard like a chicken in a barnyard...
Even as Fibercraft moves in, Sac City continues to lose other businesses. Within the past three weeks an engine-repair facility and a veterinary-supply firm closed their doors. But another manufacturer has talked about taking over the vacated quarters of a seed processor. Said City Administrator Gary Mahannah: "We're fighting a holding action until the farm economy turns around. The trick is to survive until that day comes." So far, the score is about even between Sac City and the mortgage payments that were due yesterday...
...delightful, but did anyone outside of an Antonioni film ever enjoy sitting on an inflatable plastic couch or wearing a paper dress? American designers today are again devoting themselves to grownup toys intended to make their owners feel science fictional. After a night playing with the food processor, the CD player and the PC, who wouldn't feel he had seen the future? The playfulness of high-art designers, however, is of a more rarefied kind. Instead of making gadgets, they construct jokes. Sometimes the jokes are academic, such as Michael Graves' neo-Biedermeier chair (1981) and Robert Venturi...
While seniors write theses for many reasons--including amusement--one fact remains true from Afro-American Studies to VES: motivation and interest must accompany the lengthy task. Otherwise, a senior wonders forever why he spent his final Saturday nights of college in front of the word processor or in the library...