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...rest to reduce its debt (which had ballooned to $16 billion since the 1989 merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications). "What's driving this deal is technology, not finances," insists Time Warner chairman Gerald Levin. The key technology, he says, is the digital switch needed to route voice, text and video to each subscriber's home. Time Warner had planned to build the necessary switching system itself but realized about a year ago it needed help. "We underestimated the skills required," says Levin. "I think the cable-TV industry has underestimated the difficulty of entering the telecommunications business...
Except that there is no room, no shirt and, for all we know, no woman named Suzi. These events, and their steamy denouement, exist only as text messages scrolling by on a computer screen and as libidinous images in the mind's eye -- in this case, the imagination of the three dozen men and women who have chosen this particular moment and this computer locale (the "sex" channel on the Internet), to exchange pseudonymous X-rated fantasies. Participants simply type in their best pickup lines and indicate what physical actions they are taking -- such as kissing or undressing...
Margaret is currently working on another book, which shares the title of Schine's text, Rameau's Niece. This is the ultimate post-modern text, since it is lifted almost entirely from works of prominent philosophers of the time, such as Helvetius, Kant and naturally, Diderot. The text (within the text) is filled with double entendre about a young woman's sexual coming of age and search for enlightenment...
...rough text of the advertisement lists "successful and extensive college coaching" as "a necessity" for any applicant, Cleary said. Head coaching experience is "preferred...
...widow of the briefly-glimpsed Captain Papagay who sails William Adamson off to the Amazon at the end of "Morpho Eugenia"). The passage concerning the Tennysons and Hallam seem little more than recitations of literary history, the passages from In Memoriam are poorly integrated into the body of the text, and Emily and Alfred seem less alive than their fictional companions, seeming to have no existence outside of their mourning for Arthur...