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Ararta is an elegant construct, a story of form and connections about forms and connections. It is a story whinin a story within a story Rather than the easy metaphor--a series of Russian dolls which unscrew to reveal yet another doll inside-an elegant computer program with multiple subroutines comes closer to characterizing the work...

Author: By Kathleen I. Kouril, | Title: Telling the Infinite Story | 4/16/1983 | See Source »

...been said, by a malicious Polish wit, that it takes five Southern Californians to unscrew a light bulb, four of whom share the experience. Thus it was on the hills above Malibu Beach, where the experience shared over the past three weeks was a construction crew's herculean effort to remove a 116-ton boulder that had perched over a row of fancy houses lining the Pacific Coast Highway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Rock of Ages | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...drain in her bathroom sink was clogged, and Mrs. Frances Moore of Oak Lawn, Ill., decided to clean it out with Drāno. But before she could unscrew the cap, the can exploded at the seam and her face was splattered with the product, which is more than half lye. In less than two minutes, she was blinded for life. That was nearly eight years ago. Last week, after listening to her story, a Cook County Circuit Court jury decided that the Drackett Products Co., manufacturers of Drāno, should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Reaming-Out Dr | 5/19/1967 | See Source »

...these changes are. People unscrew the nameplates from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Leaves of Grass | 4/1/1966 | See Source »

...Unscrew the locks from the doors!" Walt Whitman cried out to Americans a century ago. "Unscrew the doors themselves from the jambs!" The dirty...

Author: By Jacob R. Brackman, | Title: Allen Ginsberg | 11/24/1964 | See Source »

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