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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...
...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...
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...
...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...
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...