Yet it was he who had the prestige and the connections to turn the Turing machine into reality.
Mr. Lassar said municipal officials had "used their mob connections to turn the town of Cicero into a personal piggy bank".
Ms. Bedi dismissed these allegations, calling them a purposeful attempt by the government and its allies to drive a wedge between Mr. Hazare, the homespun Gandhian village activist, and his top advisers, who are savvy former bureaucrats with the know-how and connections to turn his lofty words into serious action.
Commenting on the parallels between the film and the television series, Martin Anderson makes another connection to Kubrick: turning his attention to the scripting, he argues, "the most interesting common ground between the two projects remains the bleak ending(s) and the slight flirtation with the acid-induced imagery and mind fucks of 2001".
Using broadband Internet connections, TiVo wants to turn its DVRs into collectors of any digital content you can imagine.
Using his cell phone the usual way, he called Jaime Villarreal, a student who was tending the Macintosh at N.Y.U., and at a moment when he was able to establish a clear connection, instructed Mr. Villarreal to turn on the camera manually at the same time that the flashers started their performance.
Several city officials on Thursday privately expressed near disbelief that any inmate, regardless of wealth or connections, would be allowed to turn a jail complex into a rollicking banquet hall for six hours.
Such vulnerability, which is an important aspect of Alice Goffman's book, creates connections between the writer and the reader--the kind of connection that compels the reader to turn the page, pay attention, think a new thought or even feel a new feeling.
But even with CVI's connections, it's not easy to turn up aged barrels of rye.
