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...selected callers from reaching a person's number at all; phones that can even double as personal desktop computers. Also in the works is a broad range of video phones for offices and, most exotic of all, portable and cordless little devices that can provide instant direct-dial access to telephones around the world. Beyond telecommunications, divestiture is expected to take AT&T into such red-hot markets as office automation, electronic information and bankat-home services, and even the mainframe computer business, a field now dominated...
...America has responded well to the U2 formula. The group's first album, Boy, received much airplay, especially around Boston. Songs like "I will follow" become hits and "Gloria" off the new album is already turning up on the dial. The songs provide a welcome variety among the hits on BCN, but their weaknesses becomes apparent easily. The "formula" threatens to imprison U2 in a musical cul-de-sac. Though the melodies and intros alternate between tracks, the style remains immutable. After a while The Edge seems to repeat the same riffs, and Bono seems to sing nothing but "faaaalling...
...different breed of cat is the star of A Dark Dark Tale (Dial; $8.95). Here the central role is taken by an unnamed black cat who once upon a time on a dark, dark moor takes a journey through a dark, dark wood to a dark, dark house, up dark, dark stairs . . . Ruth Brown's spooky read-aloud book pretends to be scarier than it is: even the youngest listener should be delighted by the punch line. The book's mysterious power is engendered by the illustrations of weed-choked gardens and abandoned, echoing halls, of mullioned windows...
Each store in the shopping center has a telephone hot line and a poster showing ten Asian and European flags. Customers signal their languages by pointing to a flag, and the merchants dial a translation service. University students at the other end listen to the customer requests and translate them into English for sales clerks...
...ANYTHING SUSPICIOUS:KEEP CALM KEEP CLEAR DON'T TOUCH PHONE THE POLICE-DIAL...