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...thinnest it seems more jokey than funny. Occasionally, it threatens to become patronizing. Most of the time it works, however, not so much because the author keeps things stirred up but because he persuades the reader to share his great, openhearted fondness for his ridiculous characters. A compact is signed, Russo saying something like, "O.K., yeah, Sully's being a bit of a jerk, but watch what he's going to do now . . ." Or, "Did you meet Vera the Awful Ex-Wife? No? Well, here she comes...
...refer to the device's more descriptive but longer name: modulator/ demodulator.Simply put, a modem takes analogsignals coming in over the phone line and converts them to digital 0's and 1's your computer can understand, and vice versa. Like the digital-to-analog converter (DAC) in your compact disc player, the modem is a link between the analog and digital worlds...
This actress knows where the camera is: nearby, as close and attentive as a lover, alert to the minutest inflection of voice or glance. Her Howards End work -- as Margaret Schlegel, a domestic diplomat mediating between warring families, classes and principles -- is a compact master class in screen subtlety. She punctuates an argument with a gay laugh, as if to say, "We surely aren't fighting!" Just before she first kisses her future husband, the self-deceiving predator Henry Wilcox (Anthony Hopkins), her body shivers, her hand flutters. The gestures, measurable in microseconds, give a brilliant hint of Margaret...
Koresh began to preach that his followers should ready themselves for a final battle with unbelievers. The Waco settlement, once a collection of old cottages scattered around 78 acres of scrub pasture and woods, was consolidated into a compact fort the size of a city block. Having equipped it with an underground bunker and an armory -- adjacent to the chapel -- cult members discussed renaming the place Ranch Apocalypse. Federal agents began tracking frequent shipments of firepower that they say amounted to 8,000 lbs. of ammunition and enough parts to assemble hundreds of automatic and semiautomatic weapons. Some time...
Philips' new digital compact cassette, like comparable products from Marantz, Matsushita and Tandy, is able both to play and to record on digital and old-fashioned cassettes. "It makes tape-format obsolescence obsolete," says Frans Schmetz of Philips Consumer Electronics. The devices include features like the ability to fast-forward at hyperspeed...