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...astonishing feat was accomplished by Cambridge Mathematician Alan Turing. Turing was a pure eccentric, a runner who "would on occasion arrive at conferences at the Foreign Office in London having run the 40 miles from Bletchley in old flannels and a vest with an alarm clock tied with binder twine around his waist." Turing was "wild as to hair, clothes and conventions" and given to "long, disturbing silences punctuated by a cackle." But by 1939, confounding all predictions, he had designed an "Ultra" machine that could decode Enigma's messages...
...enameled pedestal Is surrealist in its incongruity. Our uncertainty about its contents-not only whether Mary Magdalene's foot is in it, but also whether it contains a real foot of any kind-recalls Marcel Duchamp's A Bruit Secret, two metal plates sandwiching a ball of twine inside which a small "thing," forever unidentified, rattles when shaken...
With four seconds to go and the game tied at 68, Fordham reserve guard Kevin Brown threw up a forty-foot desperation jump shot that tickled the twine. When the yelling and screaming had died down, Harvard had indeed lost its fourth straight game of the season...
...major loss besides Lindsey was the graduation of goaltender Barb Matson. The other co-captain, Carlene Rhodes, will step into the crease this season to mind the twine. Although it will be Rhodes's first year in the pads, she will have strong support up front as Field will employ a new 4-2-3-1 lineup...
...deeper level of unfamiliarity. Since the early 15th century, European art has been so much concerned with finite space, with place and solidity rendered through perspective and tone, that we find it hard to grasp the forms of Islamic art−its "arabesques," those complicated embellishments that twine like morning-glories across every surface, an undulant line branching into unimaginably complicated mazes, knots, overlays, repeats and meander patterns. One is faced, not by another decorative style, but by a wholly different notion of space and substance...