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...more easily managed than an escarpment. But it is different in here. There isn't, for example, the palpable sadness that is so striking in other institutions where people are growing very old. It isn't happy all the time, exactly, but neither is the air so thick with loneliness, to say nothing of futility...
...very first State of the Union messages to be televised was given by Harry Truman, who was still trying to inform the nation rather than dazzle it. He read in his reedy voice from a thick notebook, stumbling over words, losing his place. As drama it was grade-B Hollywood. As Government, it was a smash...
...turned up side down and sideways and floated under an arch, dispelling any suspicions of guy wires. Women were levitated, dismembered and recombined. As the audience watched, Merlin disappeared, leaving only his costume behind. In a narrow cage, a panther turned into a chorine. A white horse vanished into thick air and reappeared on command All the while, the plot frantically expanded to accommodate the new effects...
...boys, many of them barely teenagers, stared up at her in shock as she entered the Iraqi prison camp during the thick of the Iran-Iraq war. Though many of the wounded lay barely conscious on what few blankets the prison-hospital could provide, all of them covered their heads when a Western woman paid an unexpected visit to the ward. Ill as they were, they still made a feeble effort to show their offense at the woman's appalling lack of modesty. For Karen Elliott House, The Wall Street Journal's diplomatic correspondent, it was not the first time...
...dream-or the nightmare-of a TV set the size and thinness of a painting hanging on the living-room wall may soon be a reality. In fact, the West German firm of Siemens AG, using a different technology, has built a prototype 14-in. screen just 2.3 in. thick. The prototype will have a more immediate application as a computer accessory than as a home TV screen. But one slender advantage is already possible: the Siemens screen can be folded up for storage or transport...