Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...populated with machines designed to give them back the free time they have nearly forgotten how to use. En route they pass some people with telephones in their cars, dealing with those they cannot reach because of traffic jams. Some others they pass make homes out of shopping carts, speak the language of the mad, and stare at their own loneliness with disbelief...
...preselected time), but the remote control is easy to operate after a minute's tutorial. Omnibot will raise its right arm, flash its eyes, open its hand, scuttle across the floor, make sharp turns, all at the press of a button or two. It will even speak with the child's taped voice and could conceivably serve as a referee for all the games that boil down to . . . blast...
...Nobel laureate had to pause to regain his composure before addressing the audience of dignitaries. "Do I have the right to represent the multitudes who have perished?" asked Wiesel. "Do I have the right to accept this great honor on their behalf? I do not. No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions. And yet, I sense their presence. I always do -- and at this moment more than ever." Afterward, Wiesel explained why his usual eloquence had briefly failed him. "I saw my words become visible," he said. "I had written...
...joke around the University of Chicago Divinity School: An outsider phones, asking to speak with Church Historian Martin E. Marty. A secretary says, "I'm sorry, but Professor Marty is writing a book." The caller responds, "That's all right. I'll hold...
...through the motions of dusting, but she is concentrating on putting her TV-producer boyfriend Michael (Peter Scolari) in his place, which is at her feet groveling. And just when a little order threatens to break out, in stomps a scraggly trio of backwoods brothers, two of whom never speak, leaving the third to make the group's ritual introduction, "I'm Larry. This is my brother Darryl. And this is my other brother Darryl...