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Example sentences for: typewriter
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Obituaries of the author of Naked Lunch highlight his importance as a countercultural role model, calling him "the non-conformist's non-conformist" (the Boston Globe ) who "inspired a who's who of pop culture" ( USA Today ). They dwell on the artists (Beats, punk rockers) who embraced Burroughs as a guru, and retell bizarre anecdotes from his life (he shot his wife accidentally, slept with little boys, and hawked his typewriter to buy heroin).
To some extent this was true, but it was also a bit silly, since before the typewriter there was a great emphasis on people developing uniform, depersonalized handwriting to ensure legibility.
In a cartoon from the '50s, a slightly paunchy middle-aged man, smoking a stogie under an umbrella on the beach, tells his petite, bikini-clad secretary sitting at his feet with her typewriter, "Take a postcard, Miss Hobbs."
The document appears to have been typed on a manual typewriter.
Even the changing of the paper in the typewriter seemed somehow to be incorporated into the rhythmic rat-tat-tat ...