Word: connections
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...book focuses on four characters--two married couples who have split up for complex reasons, which they try to work out during the course of the book. They find they cannot solve their current problems until they delve into their separate pasts--which connect in several instances...
...painfully aware of the limitations of language, of our language. We realize that speech is a labor of love, an effort to obliterate the spaces and experiences that block our understanding of one another, render them irrelevant in some human communion. Paradoxically, these failings of language and speech connect us--our blighted attempts become a universal tie in the human experience...
...wanted to connect with my ultimate ancestor, our common mother," Walker said, explaining the motive behind the work...
...Cola soft drinks was redesigned around a new logo -- a project that would have taken twice as long had it not been done by machine. Timex wristwatches, Ping golf clubs, Reebok sneakers and Volvo station wagons are all created on graphics workstations. Volvo even uses a satellite hookup to connect its design computers in California with its manufacturing computers in Gothenburg, Sweden. If a new model does not leave sufficient headroom to accommodate the average American driver, the computer in Gothenburg can spot the oversight before the car gets built...
...just couldn't connect at the important times," Beth Wambach said. "It was really frustrating because we had done that over the weekend...