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Home of the Brave at 12, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 p.m. and today and tomorrow at midnight...
What will tomorrow bring? Despite the overblown expectations of home computer makers, who predicted that Americans would by this time be ordering their groceries and setting their thermostats by computer, futurists are now envisioning a brave new world of one-stop networking. Commuters will set burglar alarms, start air conditioners and program their VCRs--all through the digital keypads of their mobile phones. When appliances break down, homeowners will plug them into diagnosis outlets, dial the manufacturers and be told in a flash precisely what has gone wrong. Television sets will interrupt broadcasts to announce that clothes dryers have completed...
...only 30 students of the school's total enrollment of 900. Despite these limitations, H.E.C. expects opposition from the French cultural establishment. Nonetheless, says H.E.C. Professor Benjamin Stora, "to be competitive in international business today is to use a language other than French. In France, you have to be brave to say that...
...spirit of Burgess's mad old mom is irrelevant and near to tasteless. She is played by Lillian Gish, and the movies' oldest pro clearly understands that she is trapped in Sweet Liberty's dreariest neighborhood. She does her brash best to break loose, but her efforts are more brave than successful. Doubtless her first auteur, D.W. Griffith, warned her there would be roles like this. And movies like this, signaling good intentions at every turn, but never quite achieving them...
...bathrooms were no problem. We absconded with about six rolls from each hall. Thayer even had extra rolls on the sinks because everybody on one floor shared a bathroom. The women's rooms were slightly more difficult. But being brave and daring freshmen, we poked our heads in, ran in, stuffed as many rolls as possible into our knapsacks and walked out casually as if nothing had happened...