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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is a wonderful movie fighting to get out of this $50 million musical. Unfortunately for Producer Ray Stark, the movie is Camille, that transcendent Garbo weepie, which Daddy Warbucks takes his button-eyed orphan to see at a Radio City Music Hall advance screening. (Quite a bit in advance: Annie is set in 1933; Camille was released in 1937.) In an adroit 4½-minute condensation, the tragic story of Marguerite and Armand unfolds, brief and mesmerizingly beautiful. The clip also possesses an innocence, a sweetness of spirit, that this 1982 blockbuster never even tries to capture...
Harvard passed poorly, careened shots on goal right into the belly button of Rutgers goalie John Naslonski, and generally did little to indicate that it is a team that can, at times, play inspired lacrosse. In a sense, the Crimson's performance mirrored the threatened-but-never-realized hostilities afterwards...
...machines crop up in the lives of youngsters even before they enter school-and sometimes before they learn to walk or talk-in the guise of such siliconized gadgetry as Little Professor and Speak & Spell. With a few presses of the button, these computerized games produce flashing lights, squealing sounds and disembodied voices that inculcate the rudiments of spelling and calculating. A record of sorts may have been set by Corey Schou, a computer scientist at the University of Central Florida in Orlando: he rigged up a home computer so his five-month-old daughter could operate it by pressing...
...used all semester. I was comfortable with it." His classmates were not. They worried not only about the computer's faster typing and editing time but also about the machine's ability to store key information and insert prewritten paragraphs at the push of a button. John Downer, 24, maintains that his Osborne computer did not give him an edge, but admits: "It could become the 20th century equivalent of a note on the shirt cuff." Bowing to the law school's dictum, Downer will be writing his second-semester exams on a portable Smith-Corona...
...initiative involves no recruting, Panzer said. The group has been registered for five months at the Divinity School, where its president, Antony J. Guerra, is a student. Claiming a core membership of 30 to 40 students, it has offered petitions and button sales in support of Solidarity and has sponsored religions speakers monthly on campus. CARP members also distribute the World Student Times, published in Washington by the national CARP leadership...