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...characters resemble their textual selves. Padilla's Miranda captures the naive schoolgirl, gushing effusively in the face of her "brave new world." Two actors, Blanca Hovey and Alice Ristroph, following timehonored technique, divide the role of the spirit, Ariel. Their petulant, childish rendition fit the bill perfectly...
Businessmen brave or foolhardy enough to try rebuilding in the riot corridors met with one failure after another. Even before the rubble was cleared away, John Snipes opened a custom-shirt shop on U Street to cater to snappy dressers in the neighborhood. It quickly faded in the area's dreary economic climate. "You couldn't get insurance. You couldn't get credit. You just couldn't get anything," says Snipes. "You'd look around and see all these empty buildings, all this devastation and that put a damper on us." Since then, Snipes has tried two other enterprises...
Suddenly the brave new world of video phones and smart TVs that futurists have been predicting for decades is not years away but months. The final bottleneck - the "last mile" of wiring that takes information from the digital highway to the home - has been broken, and a blue-chip corporate lineup has launched pilot projects that could be rolled out to most of the country within the next six or seven years. Now the only questions are whether the public wants it and how much it is willing...
...resignation of Fay Vincent last September. Vincent's so-called sins included his prickly independence and his determination to use his powers to act "in the best interests of baseball" and his aborted attempt to limit the freedom of TV superstations, which control the lucrative Chicago Cub and Atlanta Brave franchises...
SOME FUTURISTS LOOK FORWARD TO this brave new world, forecasting a burst of creative programming for niche audiences and a withering of mass-audience pap. George Gilder, in his book Life After Television, raves that the new technology will "liberate our imaginations from programs regulated by bureaucrats, chosen by a small elite of broadcasting professionals and governed by the need to target the lowest common denominators of public interests." Other seers are as depressed as Gilder is sunny. "I worry seriously about a world in which it's too easy to simply flip around the dial and think...