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...look at the one component that has hardly changed since the earliest days of computing -- or, for that matter, the earliest days of typewriting 125 years ago. The result is a new crop of alternative keyboards that take the standard flat, rectangular input device and bend, split, fold and twist it almost beyond recognition...
Another story with a depressing twist that turns into elation deals with the questions of a hypothetical Black homeland, which Bell says he sees as a very close parallel to Israel. In this story, a new continent appears on which only African-Americans can survive, and a huge debate ensures in the Black community over whether or not to emigrate...
...focuses on Sir William Hamilton (Sontag calls him the Cavaliere throughout the book). Cavaliere is the British ambassador to Naples, a rabid collector of potpourri and vulcanist who married his first wife Catherine for money. After Catherine's death, the Cavaliere falls in love with Emma; through a strange twist, however, she turns around and finds love in a young British admiral...
This is an updated twist on the "electoral-lock" phenomenon, which worked to the G.O.P.'s advantage since Richard Nixon's 1968 victory. Demographic trends and the distribution of electoral votes gave each Republican ticket a head start in amassing 270 electoral votes. With the Republicans dominating the West and most of the South in every election except 1976, Democratic candidates had the challenge of winning nearly all the larger closely contested states elsewhere...
...Phantom. The New Year's Eve masquerade in Act Two, is reminiscent of Poe's "Masque of the Red Death." The Phantom, clad in an angry, bloody red, exacts a shaken silence from the revelers. Like the plague in Poe's tale, the Phantom lurks at every twist and turn...