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Since the invention of the primitive hand ax, humanity has turned to tools as a way of making life easier or work more productive. "Man is a tool-using animal," wrote the 19th century Scottish historian and essayist Thomas Carlyle. "Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all." Computer software is only the latest of those tools, and programmers are only beginning to understand the true potential of software. Says Dan Bricklin, chairman of Software Arts: "We're just really getting started. I think that you will see programs coming along in the next few years that...
...horrors, tree demons, swamp critters. They have some of the charged, crude intensity of New Mexican santos. Surls is a good craftsman who does not make a parade of technique. He lacks laconic effects - nothing too beautiful: storytelling rather than elocution. His preferred tools are the chain saw, the ax and the blowtorch, with which he "paints" areas of sooty shadow into the wood. This scorching makes his pieces look even more like visitors from Down Below. You can laugh at the devil, but not too hard or long...
...second act behind the scenes at a performance of Nothing On. While the players on the far side of the scenery invisibly sing out their lines, those on the near side conduct a frenzied pantomime with a wine bottle, a cactus plant, bouquets of flowers, a fireman's ax, shoelaces tied together and assorted other slapstick paraphernalia. It is a pas de neufso ingeniously choreographed that the antics in the back-to-back farces coincide precisely, while lines of dialogue interlock in midair...
...later, the boom has gone bust. ABC canceled its late-night effort and may trim the expanded 60-minute Nightline back to half an hour. CBS has reduced its Nightwatch to two live hours plus repeats, and last week announced further on-air staff cuts. Also last week, the ax fell on the best of the shows, NBC'S Overnight, which drew 1.5 million households a night but lost $10 million. Said Executive reducer Deborah Johnson: "Apparently cable is no longer viewed as such a threat " Explained Frank: "Overnight was our finest hour but the cost was much greater...
...prison. In another time there was a drug rehabilitation center here. Neither is in operation any more, and the red brick buildings now resemble what one imagines would be left after the bomb. Creepers embellish low walls fashioned from mortar and smooth river rocks by some forgotten mason-an ax murderer...