Word: rigidities
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...Pudding Theatrical production. Quite the contrary: I found what I saw of A Thousand Clones to be a spiffily gotten-up, lively and reasonably humorous piece of light, if overlong, entertainment. Its authors did an admirable job of adapting their considerable skills to what impressed me as a surprisingly rigid and depressingly self-limiting format: Harvard may be a many-splendored place, but as Johnny Carson quickly learned about Southern California, it's only good for--tops--100 intrinsically funny words (like "Hot Breakfast," "Burbank," "Mather House," "Oxnard" and "premed") which can therefore be thrown right at audiences without...
...glory of "The Cause" has persisted despite the rise of a new generation of killers to fight for it. Taking that dream away from an Irishman--even a State-side cousin like Father Thomas O'Neill--requires major psychic surgery, cutting and tearing away at years of proper and rigid upbringing, decades of instinctive hatred. It is hardly a task that can be accomplished in a day or two--it must take months, even years, before the realization sets in. It is, in fact, a marvelous subject for a book...
...LSls had an innate drawback. Because they were made in rigid patterns and served only particular purposes -or were, as engineers say, "hard-wired"-they lacked flexibility. That limitation was ingeniously solved by the work of Hoff and others on microprogramming-storing control instructions on a memory-like chip. For the first time, computer designers could produce circuitry usable for any number of purposes. In theory, the same basic chip could do everything from guiding a missile to switching on a roast...
...little extra dog food" for his poodle Abner, who wore a sandwich board proclaiming VOTE FOR DARSKY. HE'LL WORK LIKE A DOG FOR YOUR KIDS. But Darsky too was hit with a $300 fine. So were some 100 others who ran afoul of Michigan's ridiculously rigid 1976 campaign...
...last bit of rancid emotion should have been drained away. But this is a Conrad tale, and obsession rules. The rigid set of Feraud's shoulders tells the absurd, almost admirable truth: he is just as mad as ever...