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...play addresses an idea, not a slice of everyday life. Ibsen has unrealistically attempted to cram the Doctor's psychological transformation from peaceful burgher to megalomaniac into two stage hours. Director Billy Hulkower would ideally make this metamorphosis more believable by hinting at it early in the production. As it is, this sudden transformation jars. The music, becoming audible at random moments throughout the production, also adds to the sense of unreality...
...Clinton's debate performance was equal to the demand, if not much more. He managed to curb his pet-student tendency to show off all he knows and try to cram six points into an answer to a question that really requires only two. He was dignified and well informed, had his points in order and managed to sound and look at least as presidential as Bush. Though Perot's witticisms clearly won the first debate, Clinton was equally clearly the winner of the second, partly because it followed a format that he suggested and had already mastered: questions from...
Computer researchers are always vying to cram just a little more information into a slightly smaller space. But a new technology just announced by scientists at AT&T Bell Laboratories may force the competition into playing catch-up for a long time to come. They have found a way to squeeze up to 45 billion bits of data onto a square inch of disk space -- 300 times as much as an ordinary disk, and 100 times as much as the most advanced magneto-optical technology. The system could put two copies of War and Peace on the head...
...discontent with their economic lag, the Slovaks have won Czech agreement to effect a "velvet divorce," splitting up peacefully by Sept. 30 into two countries. Both sides are having second thoughts and talking about forming some sort of confederation. But ethnic separatism may be a genie difficult to cram back into the bottle. Says Slovak leader Vladimir Meciar: "We probably will not be able to prevent a breakup...
Taylor is sympathetic to the students. The problem, he says, is not ill- prepared doctors but professors trying to cram an explosion of medical knowledge into a fixed four-year program of study. His prescription: "If we add anything further to the medical curriculum, let it be spare time...