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...Guides to sort % through the 5,000 discussion groups or the 2,500 electronic newsletters or the tens of thousands of computers with files to share. Instead of feeling surrounded by information, first-timers ("newbies" in the jargon of the Net) are likely to find themselves adrift in a borderless sea. Old-timers say the first wave of dizziness doesn't last long. "It's like driving a car with a clutch," says Thomas Lunzer, a network designer at SRI International, a California consulting firm. "Once you figure it out, you can drive all over the place...
...filmmakers, clearly delighted with the possibilities of anachronistic dress, sets, and props, can't stop sprinkling them on, even when they're pointless and distracting. Like the abrupt cuts from scene to scene, these anachronisms are jarring and seem altogether a little too precious: a toy robot is set adrift, a bunch of sneakered men are directed in sit-ups by a man in a hooded sweatshirt, and the courtiers at the meeting where Gaveston's exile is discussed are dressed as a bunch of IBM executives. In one mob scene a group of demonstrators wield placards that read...
...characters in the stories all experience in varying degrees "the sharp pain of being a foreigner." And, just as America was dangerous because it was so new, Europe is dangerous because it is so old, so filled with "extinct worlds." Few of these travelers set adrift in their absent father's land survive the perils of the decrepit continent. In "The Ghosts of August," a family travels to an Italian castle owned by a Caribbean writer. The writer has remodeled certain parts of the castle, and thus metaphorically left his mark on Europe, but there are deeper and more ancient...
LIKE A TROUBADOUR ADRIFT ON the blue highways of America, John Mellencamp has hitched his muse to the hopes and broken dreams of the heartland. Even before the mid-'80s, when he renounced the pop artifice of his John Cougar past and took back his given name, he had found his calling as a spinner of hook-laden odes to the ordinary man. Early hits that hinted at the darker dimensions of suburbia, like Jack and Diane and Pink Houses, sold millions and made Mellencamp an MTV star. On later albums, like Scarecrow (1985) and The Lonesome Jubilee...
...course, what is to be done. Our only remaining hope is that people of the Square will, late one night, rally forth and reclaim the space as their own. The revolutionaries will poster the kiosk with the information that really matters in this independently owned and operated neighborhood adrift in a global sea of megamalls: "Boycott Miller," "LaRouche for President," "Jungian Men's Group Forming: Find Your Inner Child," "Three vegan trekkies seek fourth in Davis sublet...