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...human being can play chess without thinking. And no human could beat the chess champion of the world, even in a single game, without bringing significant intelligence to bear. Shouldn't we conclude that Deep Blue must be a thinking computer, and a smart one at that, maybe brilliant? Maybe a genius? Aren't we forced to conclude that Deep Blue must have a mind? That henceforth Homo sapiens will be defined as "one type of thinking thing...
Cartoon directors are kids at heart, and the Warner aces (Jones, Avery, Friz Freleng, Bob Clampett) were brilliant kids, all in their 20s or early 30s, when they created Porky, Daffy and Bugs. Freleng was the anchor, making crisp vaudeville comedies. Clampett bent his stories and pummeled his characters into manic, surreal, endless inventive farce; his great period (1942-46) deserves a book of its own. Jones' films were about people--all right, barnyard critters, but human withal--who endured life's vithithitudes (as Daffy would say) with amazing grace and Charlie Chaplin's physical...
...clowns deliver remarkable performances: Adam Green '99 is especially delightful as Quince, the harassed "director" of his unruly band of actors. But the leader of the group, Becca Lowenhaupt '99, gives what may be the play's most brilliant performance in her side-splittingly funny portrayal of Bottom, the headstrong and histrionic weaver who accidentally becomes ensnared in the web of fairy magic permeating the forest and winds up with the infamous ass's head...
...cogs in Clinton's '92 campaign. The most recent personal contact occurred last December, when three Blair assistants took a suite at the Hay Adams hotel in Washington to speak with such White House aides as Rahm Emanuel and Don Baer and close Clinton confidants, including Mark Penn, whose brilliant work helped reposition Clinton to win last fall. "Mostly," says Baer, "the Brits this time were interested mainly in tactics, like how their war room should be set up, as if it alone, without the substance, was the secret to victory." Another Clinton associate debriefed by Blair's men says...
...Sean ("Puffy") Combs; left her old record label, Uptown; and re-dedicated herself to spirituality. Her third album, Share My World (MCA), comes out this week, and it's a winner. The 25-year-old singer-songwriter's groundbreaking first album sold 2 million copies; her second, the spottily brilliant My Life, sold 3 million; both spawned countless sound-alikes. The bold but ultimately mercenary ghetto-sex-bomb posturing of rappers Foxy Brown and Lil' Kim, the emotionally blunt crooning of talented teen singer Aaliyah and even the admirably artsy neo-soul stylings of Erykah Badu all have roots...