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Among the nominees for the Making Life Difficult for Yourself Award, it's hard to beat the Department of Justice. When probing for flaws in the Collossus of Redmond's armor last year, Joel Klein chose a dangerous gambit. Instead of launching a new and achingly slow suit against Microsoft that might take years to resolve, he decided to move much more speedily. Last October he sued to reopen an existing Windows 95 lawsuit. All went well -- at first. An irate Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson in December ruled that Microsoft had violated a 1995 agreement with the government...
...strength of nationalism among people in the advanced capitalist powers. Internationalist sentiment persisted on the Europeanleft after the war, but it never gained enough leverage to deter imperialism. Internationalist and anti-imperialist feeling in the United States was even more helpless in the face of the emerging American collossus several decades later...
...bleak preoccupation with madness and death, they fall far short of the technical virtuosity and the intensity of her later work. More intriguing than the poems are the essays which accompany them. Elizabeth Aldrich's analysis of "The Eye-Mote" (which appeared in Miss Plath's first volume, The Collossus) takes the poem apart and puts it back together in the finest style of New Criticism and, incidentally, gives a reasonably good perspective on Sylvia Plath's over-all artistic ambitions. In "The Documentary Sublime" Stuart Davis offers a total assessment of her intentions and accomplishments, presenting a critical outlook...
Metropolitan: The latest DeMille collossus, remarkably well cast, complete with 500--count 'om 500--beautiful ladies, and all the gorgeous panorama of Roman and Egyptian life portrayed with the usual DeMille facility, makes this picture well worth a trip into Boston, even if the novel vaudeville and well-chosen shorts at the Met were omitted, which they...
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