Have vehicularized and, increasingly, sport-utilitized American consumers become Burroughs' archetypical soft machines, beset and enslaved by hydrocarbon capitalism?

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Apple originally put its efforts into creating archetypical apps for tasks such as calling, browsing, email and mapping.

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We went to a seafood place across the street from the old Boston PD building in Back Bay and talked about Spenser, the archetypical private eye he created.

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So we have a picture in our heads of archetypical California Chardonnay, and only really need to make a special note of how this particular example varies from that.

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This is why practice leaders and chief operating officers services firms invest so much time and effort in driving the definition of archetypical projects with phased structures, milestones, and deliverables.

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Till then he combined Russian and French art in unique scenes of shtetl life at once realistic and magical, personal and archetypical, with floating brides, upside-down people, fiddlers on roofs and calves in cow's bellies.

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Churches are the archetypical civic clubs.

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Although he has not spoken publicly about Elevation's investment, he presumably agrees with Mr Forbes, who believes that entrepreneurship is the best way to tackle poverty (the archetypical hero of a Forbes story is someone who pulls himself up from nothing).

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