Word: code
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Freidin disagrees with the label, but acknowledges the activity. Actually, he was the original "Chapman's friend," the code name that Nixon Campaign Aide Murray Chotiner gave to two paid informants who traveled with the Humphrey and McGovern press parties. The material they delivered was pretty tame. Freidin and the woman who succeeded him as the second Chapman's friend, Lucianne Cummings Goldberg, reported the candidate's latest speeches, activities and statements to Chotiner. Freidin added some analysis of his own. John Mitchell called the material "junk," and it appears that nothing really confidential or damaging...
...mechanics, Christian mysticism and sexual fantasy−including some of Duchamp's cherished obsessions, a "male" chocolate grinder and a mechanical bride with a reservoir of "love gasoline." The Bride is no facile construction, as Duchamp makes clear in detailed annotations reminiscent of Da Vinci's code notebooks. The artist worked on his construction for eight years, then abandoned his Bride−and art−in 1923. Incomplete, indecipherable, broken and repaired, the large glass structure is still instructive and hypnotic...
...soldier stationed in Egypt discovered a slab of rock over 150 years ago, he hardly suspected that his discovery would help break the mystery of ancient hieroglyphs. Although Harvard's esoteric acronyms such as WOE and GSTFU are not impossible to comprehend, a rundown of the University's secret code, a la the Rosetta Stone, can be as useful to newcomers as a map Cambridge...
Crick and Orgel also ask why there is only one genetic code for terrestrial life. If creatures sprang to life in some great "primeval soup," as many biologists believe, it is surprising that organisms with a number of different codes do not exist. In fact, Crick and Orgel say, the existence of a single code seems to be entirely compatible with the notion that all life descended from a single instance of directed panspermia...
...that verges on the grotesque, he seems unsuited for the role of either athlete or bon vivante. But the girls are around, and, since he travels a lot these days, Riggs keeps one on ice in each section of the country, pledging her the "franchise" for that particular area code. Like every other aspect of his life, sex seems to be a game with Riggs; one can almost picture him inviting a woman to join in amorous combat, two out of three falls, with an anvil tied to his waist and a goldfish bowl on his head...