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Dizzy with the radically democratic prospects of different groups purchasing jester hats--children and adults, boys and girls, Marxists and capitalists, beer-drinkers and Gatorade-consumers--FM cautiously but excitedly whispers: Do you think a jester-hat movement is afoot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jesting, Jesting, One, Two, Three | 3/10/1994 | See Source »

...movement is afoot to restrict Powerbook use. Some classes have set up segregated Powerbook sections. So far no Combination Rosa Parks/Steve Wozniak has refused to go to the back of the lecture hall...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: DART BOARD | 2/26/1994 | See Source »

Hillary Clinton may have suspected a ruse when aides hurried her out of the White House up to a conference on Capitol Hill last Tuesday afternoon--only to find the room completely empty. Arriving back home minutes later, she received further evidence that something was afoot when her husband, dressed as James Madison, urged her into a costume suitable for Dolley. It was, after all, Mrs. Clinton's birthday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches: Clintonism: Trick or Treat? | 11/8/1993 | See Source »

...such talk is hard to gauge. So, too, are the claims of a cast of shadowy players, some of them veterans of previous U.S. capers in the region, who are lending their skills to the Haitian military's attempt to form a "reconciliation government." But plainly something is afoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti: With Friends Like These | 11/8/1993 | See Source »

...Jules Verne and Dorian Gray, a mahogany bar where a fellow serves "smart drinks," heavy on the ginkgo. This is the Explorer's Lounge, the front room of a Virtual World shop in the San Francisco suburb of Walnut Creek. But behind the paneled walls, some pioneering menace is afoot. Five kill-crazy nerdlingers will soon engage in mortal combat, 21st century style, against a tenderfoot with a cunning computer handle: Cyber Rick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Look! Up on the screen! It's a galaxy! It's a killer robot! It's . . . VIRTUAL, MAN! | 11/1/1993 | See Source »

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