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...strikes one note over and over again--the personal. She remains determinedly anecdotal, specific, and sardonic throughout: on Canadian poets, on Canadian-American relations in the 1980s, on being a woman writer, on her own attackers. If you were one of her targets, you might say she had a chip on her shoulder...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: A Voice of One's Own | 4/25/1984 | See Source »

...played by the gifted actor-director-choreographer John Lone). But once Hutton and the creature establish contact, moviegoers must make a great leap of faith, or surrender to the influence of an illegal hallucinogen, to watch the proceedings with a straight face. By then Director Fred Schepisi and Screenwriters Chip Proser and John Drimmer have all surrendered to Neanderthal sentimentality, and the rest is silliness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Greening of the Box Office | 4/23/1984 | See Source »

When the laxmen visited New Haven on Saturday, the Elis were winless in five years of Ivy play. The natives didn't just have a chip on their shoulders, they were toting a Beineke-Library sized burden...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Yale Tops Laxmen, 13-5, Ends 5-Year Losing Skein | 4/16/1984 | See Source »

...which keep the family budget, help with students' homework, play computer games or do financial planning. These programs usually come on a so-called floppy disc, a piece of plastic about the size of a 45-r.p.m. record. They can also be on magnetic tape or a silicon chip inside a cartridge. Sales of applications software for personal computers last year totaled $560 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Wizard Inside The Machine | 4/16/1984 | See Source »

Millionaire ($69.95). Marketed by Blue Chip Software of Woodland Hills, Calif, this program is used in a dozen colleges and high schools to teach students how the stock market works. At the start of each game, a player is given $10,000 and is then required to make investment decisions based on a continuous stream of financial information, such as market changes and other business developments. The player wins by amassing $1 million in theoretical profits; he loses when he goes broke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Wizard Inside The Machine | 4/16/1984 | See Source »

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