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...repossessed, why not computer software? The Silicon Valley firm Logisticon, which has been locked in a dispute with Revlon over a $180,000 bill and licensing rights for custom software, decided that the cosmetics company should not use what it had not paid for. Without letting Revlon know in advance, Logisticon programmers used a telephone connection earlier this month to enter Revlon computers and disable the disputed software. The message got through. For three days, Revlon claims, hundreds of workers sat idle as two warehouses were unable to ship as much as $60 million in goods. "Software companies have...
...cracked pane is 133 inches long and is thicker than ordinary window glass, Gordon said, adding that a replacement will have to be custom-made...
Public debate surrounding Miss Saigon revolved around two poles of thought. Perhaps Actors' Equity had a right to demand that Pryce's role be reserved for a minority actor since few performances are so custom-made for affirmative action casting? On the other hand, perhaps the union was infringing upon the rights of both producer and actor involved in what may be viewed as a case of reverse discrimination...
Going against the custom of mounting the most spectacular dinosaur bones on steel, which can reduce their scientific value, he aims to put only a bronze cast of his tyrannosaurus outside the museum. The bones will go on display much as his crew found them. The idea is to let ordinary museumgoers see the evidence from which paleontologists make their leaps of reasoning and imagination. They will be able to argue, for instance, over the only tyrannosaurus arm ever found. It is about as long as a human arm -- too short, in Horner's view, to be much...
...this diffuse movement has been dismissed with the name given it by Jean Cocteau: le rappel a l'ordre, the call to order. The custom has been to see it as a hiatus in the forward drive of modernism -- at best a faltering of energy, and at worst an Arcadian sham, a rehearsal for the coarse, repressive state art of Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin. This show is the first to take an inquisitive and fair-minded look at it. The curators, Elizabeth Cowling of Edinburgh University and Jennifer Mundy of the Tate, have done an admirably lucid job of presenting...