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...highlight of Margaret Startton's "Kiss the Boys And Make Them Die" is a Faulkneresque portrayal of the family garage falling in on her (possibly) abusive father while neighbors look on. Some clips of the ghost that watched the artist throughout her childhood are appealingly Gothic, but I was less interested in the exploration of the artist's homosexuality and childhood abuse that follows. In contrast to "Delirium," there is no overarching theme to rescue this video from a swamp of tedious personal history. Over a clip of unidentifiable squirming insect life, Stratton's voice introduces the video: "This video...
...clip of the actual video game followed, and, well, what can you say? It made Donkey Kong look like an artistic work surpassed only by Picasso...
...into place. The computers were cheap. The modems were fast. The infohighway buzzwords were on everybody's lips. "It's like Mars and Jupiter coming into alignment," says Maurice Cox, president of CompuServe, the largest (2.25 million subscribers) of the field. Upstart America Online grew at such a rapid clip -- an extraordinary 200% in the past 12 months -- that subscribers complained of busy signals and its stock was whipsawed by takeover rumors (the most recent: that cable-TV mogul John Malone wants to buy a big stake). Even Prodigy, the troubled online service that has reportedly swallowed $1 billion...
...that did not wash. Said Upendra Baxi, a constitutional expert: "This is an attempt to emasculate the institution whose mission is to hold free and fair elections." Voters seemed to agree. A Times of India poll last week revealed that 62% of respondents believed Congress's motive was to "clip Seshan's wings." More than 90% felt the commissioner was doing a good...
...Class of 1994. Hardly a trekkie, I am nevertheless, quite easily seduced by the fantastic, especially if the temptress comes equipped with transporter beams or with phasers set on stun. So the ending of Star Trek was an event for me, something that meritted a mental paper clip, something to plan a day around. It caught me at the right time, too. I had finished my final exam in Matter in the Universe just a day before, and although I had done my best to ignore the class for as much of the semester as possible, my final week...