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...most common complaint is that manufacturers promise more than their machines can deliver. Says Esther Dyson, editor of RELease 1.0, an electronics newsletter: "The industry is raising false hopes. Computers are not user friendly. In fact, they are a pain to operate." Massachusetts Attorney Thomas Christo, who specializes in computer law, says intense competition leads to hard-sell tactics that hurt the customer. Among them: "low balling," that is, selling a computer that has an attractively low price but is too small to be useful, and "bait and switch," trading up a low-balled customer to a more expensive model...
...like the painter Shusaku Arakawa-a highly intellectual artist whose half-conceptual, half-painterly work is, as one American critic put it, "haggard with self-consciousness"are much envied in Tokyo. But the most admired living artists are all Western, with Jasper Johns at the top, closely followed by Christo, whose island-fringing project in Miami's Biscayne Bay-as Japanese as a Monet, blooms of pink on the still water-caused great excitement on the other side of the Pacific. It is possible to find current work of real merit, like the exquisite objects of washi (handmade paper...
With a bullhorn as his paintbrush and the crystal-blue waters of Miami's Biscayne Bay his canvas, Christo, 47, was in Conceptual Artist Nirvana last week as he darted about by speedboat, yelling instructions to 400 helpers who had signed on for his latest production. His plan was to envelop eleven garbage-strewn islands between Miami and Miami Beach with some 6 million sq. ft. of pink polypropylene. Christo's $3.2 million "irresponsible, irrational, poetic gesture," as he calls it, is being financed largely by the sale of sketches, drawings and models of the work. As with...
...stuggled to return his handcuffing serves. Revnal, however, had the same problem with Beckman. College Tennis Singles Rankings Rank Player, Team Points 1. Greg Holmes, Utah 462 2. Paul Annacone, Tennessee 448 T3. Ted Farnsworth, Princeton 384 T3. John Van Nostrand, Pepperdine 384 5. Jonny Levine, Texas 380 6. Christo Steyn, Miami 357 7. Ken Flach, SIU-Edwardsville 355 8. Howard Sands, Harvard 339 9. Rodney Harmon, SMU 336 10. Eric Korita...
Because of the stability in the neighborhood population, most residents use words like "friendly" and "close-knit" to describe East Cambridge. "For years, everybody around here knows everybody," says 25-year-old Anthony DeSilva, an auto mechanic who has lived in the area all his life. Steve Christo, who graduated from Cambridge Rindge and Latin last month, agrees "What I like about the neighborhood is that everybody knows each other. I don't worry about being robbed or anything...