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...have some future utility. In olden days, as a token of his romantic seriousness, a gent used to give his lady a copy of Kahlil Gibran's profoundly woozy The Prophet. Perhaps the gift of a videocassette of Before Sunrise will offer a similar opportunity for '90s fellows too clever to announce that they're on the make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Jan. 30, 1995 | 1/30/1995 | See Source »

...clever novel explores the monomania of collecting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazine Contents Page | 1/23/1995 | See Source »

...those who want their information delivered in a trickle, rather than in a stream, consider Motorola's Sports Trax, a pager that feels like a cross between a radio and the sports page of a daily newspaper. Pick your favorite baseball team, and the clever pager "trax" it like a die-hard fan, transmitting pitch-by-pitch updates of every game and displaying the action on a calculator-like screen in real time all season long -- if there ever is another season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mighty Morphing | 1/16/1995 | See Source »

...engineers like to say, a clever hack -- one that touched the basic urge in computer users to control the world through their keyboards -- and it soon spawned imitators. At the University of Cambridge, for example, British students aimed a camera at the computer lab's coffeepot and transmitted, on demand, digital snapshots of the state of the brew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Snowballs in Cyberspace | 1/16/1995 | See Source »

...Guilt. There he was a minor character, the shiftless, sponging husband of the heroine, attorney Terri Peralta. Since then Richie has metastasized, and in Patterson's new legal thriller, Eyes of a Child (Knopf; 590 pages; $25), his rottenness drives the action. His psychology is that of an exceedingly clever stalker, and after Terri moves out with their six-year-old daughter Elena, his obsession is to prove that she can't break free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Public Service | 1/9/1995 | See Source »

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