THE CALCUBUS

THE CALCUBUS

THE CALCUBUSPrincipia mathematica RANGE: From that first moment in math class when you get it—or dont get it—all the way to the day you proudly accept your Nobel Prize for explaining quarks—or stand shivering on a street comer, figuring on your fingers how many...
THE GNOME ENCLATURE

THE GNOME ENCLATURE

THE GNOME ENCLATUREVerberabilissimus RANGE: Infesting the ivied towers of High Mandarin academese, and cluttering the gutters of low slum argot (littered as they are with dropped g’s and h’s). From the obsolete cliches of the left, through the content-free...
THE HOUNDS OF NEWS

THE HOUNDS OF NEWS

THE HOUNDS OF NEWSCanes inebrioses RANGE: Like the fabulous Fairy Dog packs of yore, the Hounds of News roam wheresoever they list, red-eyed and terrible; from newspaper pay windows to celebrity discos, precinct press rooms, post-game locker rooms, and wire service...
TINKERBELLES

TINKERBELLES

TINKERBELLESNumerus perversus RANGE: Shimmering across the skies. Singing down the wires. Bouncing off satellites. Beneath the seas, where the weed-draped cables drift. Binding the global village in a seamless silver web. Flashing through microcircuits to light up the...
JACK O’LECTERN

JACK O’LECTERN

JACK O’LECTERNOrator ineptus RANGE: Classes, lectures, seminars, discussion groups, conventions, pulpits, meetings, rallies, briefings, press conferences, speeches, sales presentations, readings, awards ceremonies, banquets, show-and-tell . . . anywhere, anytime...