Word: tiring
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Spelke perfected a technique that capitalizes on one thing babies are good at: getting bored. Show a baby some objects, partly blocked by a screen, doing the same thing over and over, and most will tire and look away. Now show them what they had been missing. Some objects roll or fall, just as any grownup would expect. But others, thanks to trapdoors or hidden compartments, defy the laws of physics. They pass through barriers, or disappear and reappear. Are the babies surprised? Do they look longer at the impossible events, as if trying to figure out what just happened...
...tiny dorsal fins of sharks implacably circling it. Death Ship Runover by a '66 Lincoln Continental, 1966, refers not to World War II but to Vietnam, a war Westermann hated and opposed. The auto that has just run over the ship (and, by implication, its men) with an inked tire tread is the same model that belonged to Westermann's father-in-law; it was also a favorite limo of American politicians at the time...
...birthday suit, as one once did, well, that's news too. When Agnelli needs to tell the Prime Minister something, the P.M., whoever he may be, listens intently. But if Agnelli is the king, then the crown prince is Marco Tronchetti Provera, 53, chairman of Pirelli, the $4.5 billion tire and cable maker...
...Tribune, Tronchetti Provera acknowledged as much, but hinted that he would streamline "the cascading holding companies [that] are an inheritance from the past." His initial vision for the group certainly seems future-oriented. Shortly after the deal was announced, he laid out plans for Pirelli to sell its truck-tire...
...just as in Goteborg and Prague, extremists are grabbing the spotlight. Right before Luers' trial, the Chevrolet dealership he set on fire was torched again. "We can no longer allow the rich to parade around in their armored existence, leaving a wasteland behind in their tire tracks," read a communique from the new (but still anonymous) arsonists. Zerzan, a soft-spoken graybeard who advocates a return to a hunter-gatherer society, applauds the fire bombers. "I'd like to see it happen every day," he says. "We're interested in destroying the system, not in macho saber rattling." Whatever...