Googbits Essays
All hypertext enjambment-style GoogObits posts for which I wrote original essays along with annotations.
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GoogObits: Winner / Loser (Frank White, Rare Victor Over Clinton in Governor’s Race, Dies at 69)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., May 22 — Frank White, a former governor of Arkansas who was one of only two people to defeat Bill Clinton in an election, died at his home here on Wednesday. He was 69.
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GoogObit: Mad! (Robert Merkle, Who Tried Big Trafficker, Dies at 58)
Death is the great silencer. It’s always odd to read the obituary of someone who was, in life, a great noisemaker, whether it is actual noise or just the legal kind.
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GoogObits: Work (LARRY A. ROSENBAUM, 56)
Today we see how the gift of life was not squandered. Larry Rosenbaum was given the stereotypical “two years to live”. He took much more than he was given. And he gave a large company a set of intellectual property relating to the use of plastics. We are all work for hire.
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GoogObits: Friend of the Family (MOIRA TOBIN WICKES, 46)
This GoogObit was written by my brother Kevin, in tribute to a woman he and his family knew from their old parish. His daughter Moira, who shares the name of the deceased, was very good friends with her son Tim when they went to school together at Northside Catholic Academy, St. Gertrude Campus.
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GoogObits: Words (Malcolm Kilduff, Who Announced Kennedy’s Death, Dies at 75)
Right about now, as a powerful country reels back its fist and gets ready to show Iraqis once again how brute force can ruin everything, the power of words can be deprecated. But don’t be fooled. Words rule.