Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clutch to the ear an object that looks ignominiously like the shining plastic cousin of a shoe. Designers have produced more streamlined models, but an essential ungainliness is inescapable. It results partly from the pressing of technology against anatomy. The technosmooth circuitry is pushed bizarrely against the old Darwinian skull. The talker's being comes unfocused from the visual immediate room and refocuses -- through the ear! -- elsewhere. The Here communes with There through sudden activations of breath, vocal cords, jawbone, tongue, lips, eyes, emotions. Through the thing held to the ear, we hear voices from another world. We would...
...September 1987 protester S. Brian Willson lost both legs and suffered a fractured skull when a munitions train he was trying to block at the Navy's weapons station in Concord, Calif., plowed into an antiwar rally. Some witnesses stated that the train's three-man crew had increased its speed as it neared the demonstrators to scare them off the tracks. Yet the crew members, claiming they had suffered mental anguish because of the incident, filed a suit for damages against Willson and his wife...