Word: automatons
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...surely deserves the attention of discerning movie watchers. The Hire, an automaton hero at the wheel of his automotive avenger, is a solid yet supple arche- type--a creature out of existentialist literature. He is what he drives. And he always wins. Except when he doesn't want...
...Michael Dukakis's mechanical reply to a debate question about how he would react to his wife's rape and murder crystallized his reputation as an automaton...
Science fiction has long been at work on scenarios of robots that evolve and manufacture ever-improving versions of themselves, and eventually develop human traits - the capacity to feel, to love, to hate. In such fiction, the climactic poignancy occurs when the automaton, love-stricken, sheds a tear. This is because the robot, like Hemingway's Jake Barnes in "The Sun Also Rises," has a sad incapacity to mate; surely that is one of the first defects the shrewd robots would correct...
...getting that call or that e-mail is so important that you must immediately respond to it. How in the world can it be progress to give up all rights to a private life just because it's possible to do so? Are we turning into some sort of automaton consumers who live for commerce, or will we retain the spiritual and emotional qualities that make us something more than consuming machines? ROB GLASER Chicago...
...Year's Eve, six-year-old Christian put the lighted flashlights into the sleeves of his rust-red sweater and, a veritable 21st century automaton, ran down the hallways of TIME magazine to his mother, picture editor MaryAnne Golon. With not a small degree of pride, he loudly declared, "I'm Y2K compliant...