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...raped child. Why are "incest" and "sexual abuse" always in categories separate from "rape"? "Incest" is a noun, not a verb; there's no such thing as "to incest," and the victim and agent of incest are indistinguishable "committers of incest." "Committing incest" in our language is conceived as merely a violation of the accepted law and morality, not of the privacy of a woman's or child's body...

Author: By Ghita Schwarz, | Title: The Changing Rhetoric of Rape | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

After "warm-up," Satan turns on music that the CIA used effectively for many years to get information from captured spies. The music usually juxtaposes a verb--such as "push" or "beat"--with the word "it" and repeats this inventive combination for 10 minutes at a time...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Low-Impact, High Pain | 9/28/1989 | See Source »

...Really? That's [past tense verb...

Author: By Julio Verala, | Title: Life Without Mort Downey | 7/25/1989 | See Source »

...Neither can Carson, Letterman, that guy from Wheel of Fortune or that Black kid who hangs out with Eddie Murphy. [Degrading verb], no. Mort...

Author: By Julio Verala, | Title: Life Without Mort Downey | 7/25/1989 | See Source »

Considering the complexity of the task, the progress in machine translation has been startling. Essentially, the translating machine analyzes the syntax of an English sentence, determining its grammatical structure and identifying, for example, the subject, verb, objects and modifiers. Then the words are translated by an English-Japanese dictionary. Next, another part of the computer program analyzes the resulting awkward jumble of words and meanings, and generates an intelligible sentence based on the rules of Japanese syntax and the machine's understanding of what the original English sentence meant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Trying To Decipher Babel | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

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