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...Into this solitude erupts Martina, a figure half-remembered from Sandy’s past, an acquaintance from university days, who, in a random telephone call, tells Sandy of a peculiar visitation she experienced...
...In the exhibition, a board invites visitors to dial 2 on a black telephone and listen to Vita answering....
...Mytting scored a surprise how-to hit in 2011 with Norwegian Wood — a woodchopper’s companion — a book that proved the lingering appeal of traditional ways....
...It turns out that we are waiting for one of her three granddaughters to arrive, although in the end, after several telephone calls, Murphy learns that a fierce storm will delay her for hours....
...“When I explain things, I try to simplify — ‘think of it like a telephone line.’ But it’s much more complex than that.”...
...As we think about going into isolation, we remember the value of human closeness again, and of a telephone call over a text. And it has made a generation of us remember that wonder drug, soap....
...Lead organisation/individual: Plateau State ministry of justice, Nigeria Project name: COVID Companion Description: Developed a conversational assistant for smart speakers that leverages AI and geolocation...
...He’d no doubt be shocked at all the telephone masts, but there’s still enough wilderness and jungle in that corner of the world for us to have the sort of adventure the great explorer would recognise....
...His 37-metre inflatable “Holiday”, one of his coveted Companion cartoon characters, is floating on its back in Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour, viewable from many of the city’s high-rises as well as from the...
...Sculpted cherubs chat on the telephone, carvings of The Three Musketeers adorn the grand mahogany staircase, faux medieval stained glass windows glint on polychrome marble floors recalling Venetian palazzi...
...The story is a fascinating companion piece to Sontag’s influential essay “AIDS and its Metaphors”, and a fine short story in its own right, an example of what one can achieve with reported speech....
...A spectator at a northerly cricket ground, rain poncho billowing in the wind, precariously balances two ice cream cones as he inches along a row of seats towards a shivering companion....
...When her companion finally gives up the search, they fall out irrevocably, the tragedy that brought them together now driving them apart....
...A ringing telephone sounds like a crackle; she can hear speech but has to lip-read to make sense of it. Her experience of deafness is inextricable from her musicianship....
...The emirate is generally thought to have bought a companion piece, “Lullaby Spring”, for a record-breaking £9.6m in 2007....
...“Twenty per cent of language here is said; 80 per cent is understood,” my companion went on....
...With a quaint arrangement to meet my companion at 6pm by the popcorn stand, I settled into my seat in the near-empty theatre....
...These provocative one-liners, daubed on rough-and-ready posters hung on telephone booths and fences, appeared around New York, seeping into the public consciousness....
...And when Stagg arrives at his office in the headquarters of supreme Allied commander Dwight Eisenhower – the sole scene in this highly efficient production – he finds it sorely lacking in telephones....
...Microsoft The original companion of the office worker, Microsoft’s Word, Excel and PowerPoint programmes in the Office suite are still used around the world by about 1.2bn users....
...On March 10 1876, this Watson was the recipient of Bell’s first telephone call....
...The Swiss tourist, in her late thirties, was on a cycling trip across India with a male companion....
...We’ve lived with astonishing economic growth for 250 years; perhaps we are starting to take this exciting companion for granted. Tim Harford is the presenter of Radio 4’s ‘More or Less’....
...Then there is the prospect of new robotic markets, such as humanoids that can act as personal companions or domestic assistants....
...Suddenly: a message on my telephone. It wasn’t going to work, my guest said haltingly: the traffic had been dire, they had been forced to turn back. Massive apologies....
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