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...their brother Tom) grew up in "a sort of upper-class poverty" (which entailed, at its worst, six servants). They referred to their eccentric parents as "Farve" (their father had such a formidable temper that he banned the Duchess of Marlborough from his home because she left a paper handkerchief on a hedge) and "Muv" (their slightly dotty mother considered dinner napkins an extravagance). Nancy, the eldest child, would capture both their peculiar family life and the milieu of the "Bright Young Things"--the flippant, modern young aristocrats of the 1930s--in her fizzy comic novels, The Pursuit of Love...
...route: Traveler is captive. Yes, excuse me, miss? Do you think you could ask the man sitting next to me to stop with the incessant coughing? Or could you at least find him a handkerchief...
Meanwhile, the governor lit up the "Inaccuracy" button when he talked up the Texan Patient's Bill Of Rights. "You can't gag a doctor," he claimed. "False Statement!" flashed on the screen. Perhaps the machine was being too literal. I would think it pretty tough to stuff a handkerchief in the mouth of the average physician. Incidentally, every time Gore said the words "Dingell-Norwood," his "Cognitive Level Indicator" spiked up 4 percent. Mmmm...
...tell such a lame joke with such obvious delight. Rubber-faced, slow-talking, yet irrepressibly exuberant, Lieberman at his introduction in Nashville, Tenn., was already rubbing off on the usually constrained Gore, who nearly scampered about the stage retrieving a camera left there by Tipper and handing Lieberman a handkerchief to wipe his sweating face. (Memo to Gore fashion consultant: Lieberman's white shirt stayed dry because he wore an undershirt...
...animators, Lynn can find his way into twisting forms. "You define space in the computer with curves," he says. "Usually an architect would draw points, and connect lines and planes with them. With these programs, we've shifted to thinking of space as the sheltered enclosures of a flexible handkerchief." One thing that makes Lynn new is that he knows why they call that stuff software...