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...tried making faces, or opening up a New York Times to its full expanse and holding it in front of my opponent's face, just to speed him up. But by the end of the first day, Harry and I were at the bottom of the pack, never to inch up. Chess tournaments can build a lot of character...
...talked with groups of newsmen at every opportunity (four times in one day in Omaha). He looked every sturdy inch a candidate when, cheered by 4,000 flag-waving students, he jumped out of his limousine in Tinley Park, Ill., and plunged into the crowd to shake hands...
...wends its way around the floor at about one mile per hour, the mailboy emits a soft beeping sound and a low-intensity blue light to alert unwary humans. If these warnings are ignored, infra-red sensors inform the robot when it is four inches away from a leg or a misplaced piece of furniture, and it comes to a stop after moving only another inch...
...caliente (Spanish for "hot dog"), which went for seven pesos. Up in the Indian Quarter seven pesos would have bought me soup, a piece of chicken, rice, and chuna, a type of dried potato. In a few minutes the waitress, dressed in a tight yellow uniform, placed a five-inch long, grease-bathed hot dog in front of me. I didn't even get a roll...
...other works of art, except the cathedrals for which they were sometimes woven, absorbed so much collective labor: to see why, one has only to peer at the density of stitching in one square inch of a tapestry and reflect on the time needed to work a surface that might extend for hundreds of square yards. One man could illuminate a Book of Hours. But the fabrication of a hanging might be farmed out among dozens of looms under the supervision of a master weaver. The fact that one of these entrepreneurs, Nicolas Bataille, who took more than three years...