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Everything about The King Stag is enchanting. The Forest of Miracoli, where Deramo goes hunting with Tartaglia, is filled with parrots whose gorgeous plummage creates a fluttering rainbow swirling in the air. Clever back-lighting on a pale skrim projects a prancing menagerie of lions and tigers and bears. A poor of light, lit from below the stage, suggests a woodland stream around which the overhead-lighting throws a sun-dappled forest floor. The fragile nobility of the two stags, with their breathtakingly lovely coats of the palest pastel, steal the forest show...
...several generations of M.I.T. engineers, the subway prank was known as the ultimate "hack," the rare practical joke clever and elegant enough to be worthy of one of the world's most prestigious technical schools. Today the best and the brightest technology students are more likely to be found hanging around a computer system than a subway system. But they still call themselves hackers, and although they insist they have been misunderstood, their relationship with the public is once again on the skids...
Hidden in all of this, embedded and often engulfing her narrative, Lurie reveals her own love of writing, an old-fashioned and well-honed gift for the clever phrase and the apt insight. "To take off all your clothes and lie down beside some unclothed larger person is a terribly risky business. The odds are stacked almost as heavily against you as in the New York State Lottery. He could hurt you: He could laugh at you; he could take one look at your naked aging body and turn away in ill concealed, embarrassed distate. He could turn...
...Eleni, the film of Nicholas Gage's book about his Greek mother (she was executed in 1948 by Communist rebels who had occupied her village after World War II). In the scene simulating an artillery attack by government forces, Nelligan "decided to liven it up with some clever falls I devised for myself, including somersaults when the mines and bullets were near misses." By the time the sequence had been reshot 15 times, however, the repeated falls had left her with a swollen ankle and hip. The scene ended with a soldier stealing a loaf of bread from Nelligan...
...Macintosh computers, while considered state-of-the-art, will not run any of the thousands of programs written for the Apple II or the IBM. Emphasizing ease of use and attractive screen displays, Apple has gambled that it can buck IBM's marketing muscle with technological prowess and clever advertising. So far the wager seems to have paid off. Future Computing, a Dallas research firm, estimates that in the Mac's first year on the market, sales will reach nearly 383,000, making this the most successful personal computer launch to date. The company, however...