Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bottom of his reply, a flashing signature sits above the well-publicized FBI sketch of the Unabom suspect...
...Paul McCartney alternates verses of cooing falsetto and rapacious shout (he's Smokey Robinson; no, he's Howlin' Wolf). John, Paul and George Harrison harmonize on a beautiful a capella Because. Lennon, high on his new love, intones, "Yoko o no-no, Yoko o no-yes during a rough sketch for Happiness Is a Warm Gun. He does a Yokoized What's the New Mary Jane, a previously unreleased number with Lewis Carroll-like lyrics and avant-garde inventiveness. But there's also an urgent I'm So Tired, still one of Lennon's most potent songs--ennui, annoyance, panic...
...thumbnail sketch of New Hampshire politics, one need only look at the license plates, emblazoned with the motto live free or die. In true libertarian fashion, New Hampshire imposes neither income nor sales tax on its residents. Not surprisingly, the G.O.P., protector of low taxes, small government and free enterprise, has dominated politics here for most of the century, and currently the Governor and the entire congressional delegation are Republican. But things are a little different this year: the Democrats have a shot at two of the three congressional seats up for election...
...contact Rick Borovoy through that Reliable model T of cyberspace, the telephone. "Your name sounds familiar," he says. Briefly, I sketch out the highway map of my life: Pennsylvania childhood, high school in Connecticut, college in Iowa, assorted rites of passage in New Mexico. "That must be it," he interrupts. Borovoy used to work with the Navajos there; I'd done some work with the northern Pueblos. "At least we found something," he says, satisfied that our lives may in fact have intersected at some point...
Pilot users can jot notes and addresses into the machine with a tiny penlike stylus that traces letters onto the touch-sensitive screen, like an Etch-A-Sketch. To help Pilot turn those squiggles into English (the Achilles' heel of the Newton, which was likely to translate GET LUNCH into EAT COUCH), users must write in Graffiti, a simplified written language that replaces each letter with a geometric pattern; an A looks like an upside down V, for instance. It took us 10 minutes to learn, and after a week we were up to about 80% of our normal writing...