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The "Tiger Vac," as they call it, holds a small, relatively simple computer in its body which takes signals from the main computer--in this case, the Apple "Mackintosh"--and translates them into actual movements.
Brookner re-creates the world of the immigrant high bourgeoisie with convincing selectivity. Its style and manners are indistinguishably British, with only a hint that the Dorns, apparently Jewish, belong to a community within a community. The characters are defined largely through their social behavior. Sofka: "A shy woman, virtuous...
As the days and entries multiply, both Keene and the people around him assume increasingly interesting shapes. He sets up a still to tide himself over the first year of farming and is soon selling 80 proof corn whisky at 32 cents a gallon. He is one of his own...
Her only unhappiness among all these Edenic ways stems from the fact that her father is a member of the Condor people, a fierce warrior tribe to the north. His name is Terter Abhao, which translates into Kesh as Kills. When North Owl is nine, he reappears and spends the...
If "the pursuit of happiness" for Millet is the quest for a new woman-based eroticism, the key to MacKinnon's view of sexuality is gender. A crude distinction one could make between the two structuralist conceptions is the exploitation of women as viewed in sexual vs. economic terms--which...