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More than 60 million words have been stored ona five and three-quarter inch compact disc whichlooks identical to those discs which play music,says Theodore Brunner, a professor of classics whochairs the Irvine group called the ThesarusLinguae Graecae project...
Aside from tapping into the results of theThesaurus project Harvard will do some condensingof its own. Crane is in now in the process ofnegotiating for a $500,000 contract to beginproducing compact discs which would contain afifth of all the pre 600 A.D. Greek material...
Harry Angel is investigating one such compact. Louis Cyphre (Robert De Niro), a dapper gent with long fingernails that could rip your heart out, has hired him to find Johnny Favorite, who hit it big as a crooner before the war, then disappeared, body and soul, welshing on a commitment to Cyphre. The people who knew Favorite -- a junkie physician (Michael Higgins), a blues guitarist (Brownie McGhee), a society girlfriend (Charlotte Rampling) and her father (Stocker Fontelieu) -- share two annoying habits: they won't tell all they know, and they keep turning up dead, in circumstances that implicate Angel...
...mainly of teaching Hebrew and campaigning for Jewish cultural rights. After being reunited with his family and friends on a Moscow train platform last week, Begun relaxed in his apartment and spoke with TIME Moscow Bureau Chief James O. Jackson of how he passed his time in prison. A compact man with cheerful blue eyes and a velvet yarmulke covering the stubble of a recently shaved head, Begun described his regimen during a typical day at Chistopol prison, 500 miles east of Moscow. Jackson's report...
...latest in dorm room decor includes waterbeds, microwaves, compact disc players, and the old favorite, that black and white TV perfect for MASH reruns, has been supplanted by the VCR. The high life has gone high tech...