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But others are male, such as the author and illustrator who create Mary Worth anew every day, or George Horace Lorimer, an editor of the old magazine the Saturday Evening Post and an aphorist whose nuggets of wisdom sound uncannily Quindlenesque: "Education is about the only thing lying around loose in the world, and it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much of he's willing to haul away" is one of his more famous ones.
Branded, service-driven, globalized, and unhindered by the state, the Las Vegas casinos do sound uncannily like models for the economy into which we appear to be moving.
) So, Lewis' account of the wild and uncannily shrewd Jim Clark is among other things a terrific introduction to the ongoing revolution in information technology, to its transformation of the U.S. economy, and to the gold-rush combination of optimism and insanity in the current marketplace for Internet ideas.
A year ago, the wife of the Oxford don noticed that the pattern on Kleenex quilted tissue uncannily resembled the Penrose Arrowed Rhombi tilings pattern, which Sir Roger had invented--and copyrighted--in 1974.
Is it tasteless to suggest of JonBenet Ramsey--the cute, blond 6-year-old from Colorado who was strangled to death a few weeks ago--that it is her grisly death, rather than her career as a juvenile beauty queen, that makes her so uncannily resemble a girl in a fairy tale?