Word: space
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...stores, where they have enjoyed a remarkable bounty. Since the breakup, the number of telephone makers selling to the U.S. market has jumped from 25 to more than 200, which has vastly improved the range of prices, styles and capabilities. The high-tech scramble has produced phones with such space-age functions as voice-activated dialing and message machines...
...decent society. We sentimentalize Jefferson and his colleagues if we suppose they were not elitists. His buildings, like other major expressions of design in the new Republic, insist that elites matter and are valuable. They imply that the democratic task is not to level but to create space for the exceptional while protecting general access to it with doctrines of equal rights...
That he has survived these 200 years seems due largely to the Constitution's roominess, which has given him space to shift the furniture without destroying the house. The beauty of the Constitution is that it offers its resident a perpetual challenge to find his own equilibrium within the structure. Miraculously, to date he has managed to do that, as if he were conscious of the fact that the Constitution reflects his nature, mirroring his competing tendencies to squat adamantly and lurch suddenly. In a way, he continually rediscovers himself in that house, a brand-new American for every decade...
...nation's capital moved, went into hiding during the War of 1812, was transferred from federal department to department until it wound up in the National Archives in Washington, sanctified in helium and watched over by an electronic camera conceived by NASA. The quill age to the space age, and at every stage, a nation full of grateful believers making a constant noisy fuss over a piece of writing barely equivalent to a short story: much theme, no plot and characters inferred...
With this splendid first 45 minutes of his new film, Stanley Kubrick reenters the real world. For a quarter-century the reclusive director has hit the cerebral fantasy button, in Pentagon war rooms (Dr. Strangelove), in outer and inner space (2001: A Space Odyssey), in the nightmare future (A Clockwork Orange), in the duplicitous past (Barry Lyndon) and down the endless bloody corridors of a deranged mind (The Shining). Now he's back. Full Metal Jacket is not a realistic film -- it is horror-comic superrealism, from a God's-eye view -- but it should fully engage the ordinary movie...