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...They're threatening to pull the rug out from under us, meaning we'd have to go independent. We'll know by next week...
...gloomy mood 2 "-- opinion" 3 Scandal-ridden German pol. org. 4 JFK arrival 5 Wears out the rug 6 Greenspan of the Fed 7 Cacophony 8 Central figure in a 25-year-old murder case 9 Loesser's The Most Happy -- 11 Serious fluid buildup 12 Police, slangily 14 Bartlett's abbr. 16 "Be prepared" org. 19 Litter's littlest 20 Bauxite or galena 21 Dumb -- (old comic strip) 23 Sot's spree 24 Strip in the Middle East 26 Lesage's -- Blas 27 Benjamin's successor 28 Rush to sell, on Wall Street 29 New competitor for the Pentium...
SIGNAL TO NOISE Still wondering what information appliances are good for? Well, here's one that actually solves an everyday problem--Oreck's new vacuum cleaner with a built-in radio. Now you can rock out as you air your rug out without worrying that your Walkman will get tangled up with the vacuum's power cord. There's even a hook to hang your headphones on. Of course, you still have to haul the vacuum up and down stairs and push it around the floor. But hey, what do you expect for $499? The Oreck XL is available...
...time she sits for her portrait, Greit is a budding connoisseur. Standing, dustrag in hand, before her employer's paintings, she begins to have small epiphanies: "The pitcher and basin...became yellow, and brown, and green, and blue. They reflected the pattern of the rug, the girl's bodice, the blue cloth draped over the chair--everything but their true silver color. And yet they looked as they should, like a pitcher and a basin... After that I could not stop looking at things...
...didn't really grasp relativity, prompting Arthur Eddington's celebrated wisecrack (asked if it was true that only three people understood relativity, the witty British astrophysicist paused, then said, "I am trying to think who the third person is"). To the world at large, relativity seemed to pull the rug out from under perceived reality. And for many advanced thinkers of the 1920s, from Dadaists to Cubists to Freudians, that was a fitting credo, reflecting what science historian David Cassidy calls "the incomprehensiveness of the contemporary scene--the fall of monarchies, the upheaval of the social order, indeed...