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...That dictum inspired him to save up the money for his first bike at the age of six. Today it underpins the "toughlove" policies he is pursuing as Governor of Wisconsin. "We're glad to say he's a typical Wisconsinite," says Tilmar Roalkvam, 72, a retired Elroy postman who has known Thompson from childhood. "It's them work ethic. Being a good person...
...says Alan Kay, a techie visionary whose design work led to the Macintosh's easy-to-use screen display, "the computer revolution hasn't happened yet." Kay maintains that the computer is not a tool or an instrument but a medium, and he cites communications guru Marshall McLuhen's dictum that all new forms of media take their initial content from what preceded them. "Everything that we do on a computer is a simulation," says Kay. "Right now, we're still simulating paper...
Artwork in Adams House Tunnels: I'll bet they don't have tunnels like these back in York, Maine. Adams House gives new meaning to Oscar Wilde's famous dictum that all art is quite useless...
...rare and endangered species. The only other active two-sport pro, Atlanta Falcons defensive back Deion Sanders, was dropped by the Yankees last season after several trips to the minors, but he has since been picked up by the Braves as an outfielder. There is an old sports dictum that Jackson should perhaps have studied with greater care: baseball pays more, and you get hit less...
VICTORIES by George V. Higgins (Henry Holt; $19.95). Higgins' dictum, "Dialogue is character is plot," could be no better illustrated than in his latest political novel, about a congressional election in Vermont during the 1960s, when the voters and candidates square off over the Vietnam...