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Harry Mendelssohn (Jason Alexander) is the ultimate anticomputer nerd. He is threatening to dynamite the library where he works if its card-catalog system is replaced by PCs. Brian Dickey (Peter Falk) is the police negotiator--Columbo raised to the nth degree--trying to talk him out of anarchy. Lee Kalcheim's play, at Los Angeles' Geffen Playhouse, sets them dueling metaphorically over the fate of modern civilization. Sometimes his targets are too easy (no more Starbucks jokes, please), but he has written fine, funny parts for the edgy, earnest Alexander and canny, counterpunching Falk. And his ending...
Stewart Brand, creator of the Whole Earth Catalog, is co-founder of Global Business Network and author of The Clock of the Long...
...were thrilled to have equal access to the riches in the course catalog. What would take us longer to realize was that, despite this academic breakthrough, faculty and administration attitudes did not keep pace with our heightened expectations...
...scooter frenzy originated last spring among teens in Japan, where entire magazines are now dedicated to scooter arcana. After storming Australia, the trend touched down in Hawaii and, since last Christmas, has been spreading east. "We started carrying the Razor in our catalog last August with moderate interest," says Tony Farrell, a senior vice president for the Sharper Image. "In early February, they began flying out of our store in Honolulu." Now the Razor is the top-selling item in many of the chain's U.S. outlets...
...afterword to the show's catalog, Mark tells us that Tiny is now a single mother with five children by five different fathers. But in the book's final shot we see her from above, half submerged under the bubbles in the carton of her bathtub, a pillowy woman with a tentative expression, not satisfied certainly, but not devastated. She seems to say, "Well, it's come to this so far." The lines of the picture converge just above her head, where your eye takes in a small cake of soap. It's the quiet emblem of all hopes...