Word: telegraph
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...fluorescent pink and green that drew immediate comparisons to an alien spaceship. Nigel Coates, the only architect among the seven for whom Prince Charles has ever shown enthusiasm, designed what from river level looks like two acorns moored to the chassis of a racing car, but which the Daily Telegraph claimed would look from the air like "a giant phallus...
...Turner, whose book I Heard It Through the Grapevine is a definitive study of how information spreads in black America, this is the first time the Internet has electrified African Americans about a subject that most whites and the national news media are only dimly aware of. The "Black Telegraph"--as some African Americans call the informal word-of-mouth network they've used to keep in touch with one another since the days of slavery--has moved into cyberspace...
...recent past the Black Telegraph, augmented by black-radio talk shows, has been a font of bizarre fantasies. Among them: the claim that Church's fried chicken is laced with a chemical that sterilizes black men and that aids was produced by government scientists to exterminate blacks and gays. But because the allegations in "Dark Alliance" were published by a respected, white-owned newspaper, they have credibility that the other tales lacked. As Joe Madison, a Washington talk-radio host who has devoted his program to "Dark Alliance" for the past month, explains, "We've always speculated about this...
...Carolina, the rest of the primary march was anticlimactic. Grand plans were hatched for the months before the August convention. The nominee-presumptive would preside over national-issues forums to demonstrate seriousness of purpose. A running mate and some likely Cabinet choices would be selected, a shadow government to telegraph what an Administration of adults--as opposed to baby boomers--would look like. But Dole, broke and exhausted, had the stomach for none of it. And so he watched from the sidelines with scarcely an answering volley as the Clinton machine--flush with funds because no other Democrat had risen...
Amplifying a learned article that he published in 1995, Thiede has marshaled his arguments in a new book called Eyewitness to Jesus (Doubleday; 206 pages; $23.95), written with Matthew d'Ancona, a deputy editor and political columnist at London's Sunday Telegraph. As evidence of the fragments' early origins, Thiede notes that the handwriting on the Magdalen Papyrus is in a style known as uncial, which began to die out in the middle of the 1st century. A second clue to the manuscript's origins is its format. The three fragments are from a codex, a primitive kind of book...