Word: bits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most popular genre, however, is one sci-fi purists disdain: endlessly replicating paperbacks based on movies and TV shows, notably Star Wars and Star Trek. "Movie tie-ins outsell regular science fiction by quite a bit," Brown says with a sniff. "We don't consider them real science fiction." A bit more acceptable, though still off the point, are traditional sword-and-sorcery fantasies like Robert Jordan's A Crown of Swords (Tor), which debuted at No. 2 on last week's New York Times list...
...Harvard seems to have gotten the formula right, for now--three excellent movies are being presented this weekend and next week, free with a Harvard Summer School ID. And what could be better than a cool, dark movie to help that Fourth of July sunburn heal a bit...
...Dole recalls things a bit differently and casts them in a more take-charge light. She insists she fully understood the gravity of the situation. "What I recall is asking Jeff to come up with a program, because I knew before I went in that we were going to have to take very bold action. And I asked him to come up with a program we could move on very quickly...
...didn't take an English professor to spot the irony. Apple Computer, facing thousands of layoffs, dwindling market share and potential extinction, launched its first big ad campaign of 1996 in partnership with Mission: Impossible. Surely the phrase fit the Cupertino, California, computer maker's scenario every bit as well as the Tom Cruise movie. Why not, one PC magazine suggested, also sponsor a remake of Raise the Titanic...
...recent 18-month acceleration in fires at small black churches like Kossuth's represents a re-emergence of something big and evil: as National Urban League president Hugh Price puts it, "The flames of bigotry and intolerance are soaring higher than they have in a generation." Now each new bit of evidence about the arsons in their backyard forced the people of Kossuth to question whether their confidence in local harmony had been misplaced--and to reconsider their own behavior. "It's scary to think of people doing something so mean so near," says Pauline Morton, who lives close...