Word: lampposts
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...Funny Farm’s closing will deprive the Square of one of its wackiest decorations—its lamppost-hugging mannequins...
...long ago, I walked out of the shower in my New York City apartment and came face to face with a man. Given that I'm married, that's not so unusual. But this man was hanging from a lamppost outside my window. I shrieked and ran out of the room. When I returned, clothed, he was gone, but I didn't like what he'd left behind: an odd, toaster oven-size box with a 2-ft. antenna dangling below...
...complex technical considerations, the FCC allows Metricom's transceivers to emit anywhere from 1 to 6 watts of EIRP. Radiated power--words that make me want to duck for cover--drops off precipitously with distance, so that at 20 ft. (about how far my bed is from the lamppost), 6 watts is negligible. "It falls way below a level that would put anyone at risk," says Julius Knapp, an engineer at the FCC's office of engineering and technology...
...slipped under my door. Sometimes I found notes in my mailbox. Sometimes I was given toys with company logos. And everywhere I went on campus, posters promising a wonderful I-banking/consulting life lined the stairwells, covered the entrances to the dining halls and glared at me from every lamppost and tape-able surface imaginable. Maybe I'm just paranoid, but these messages left little room in my mind for misinterpretation: Forget art. I should bank or consult. But I'm stubborn, and so, naively, I ignored the signs thinking that new ones would inevitably appear guiding me along...
...Well, he's about as animated as a lamppost," the art editor says. "But he's still a good-looking guy, and I think we can do something striking on the jacket with him chopping wood." 2000 turns out to be a good year for Al Gore. Physically unattractive writers of literary novels have another terrible year...