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...know you think your mom sounds loony, but actually she has a point. The Power Rangers are pretty lame. But on the other hand, it sounds like they elicit a good deal of joy too, and we all know you shouldn't snort that. Read a book. Draw a picture. It's better...

Author: By Melrosing IN Mather, | Title: Norma Knows | 3/16/1995 | See Source »

...exhibit doesn't move you, you say. Call you unfeeling or not trendy enough, you challenge. Let's just call it what it is: bad journalism. It wasn't necessary to elicit emotion from everyone, rather the intent was to receive a response. We're sorry The Crimson couldn't pull together some-thing better than what it offered. As a piece of art you didn't get it. As a statement from an Asian American community you didn't get it. Dear editors, perhaps it is because you just don't have it. Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Association Steering...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartboard Missed Display's Points | 3/6/1995 | See Source »

...theaters in Chicago, Toronto and Linz, Austria, he appears onstage framed by the image of a virtual world he enters when he dons special goggles and a DataGlove. His audience sees what he sees -- and what he does, which is bend and stretch like some contorted stork. His movements elicit eerie, tinkling notes from the computer-generated virtual instruments he is playing: a Cybersax, a CyberXylo and a Rhythm Gimbal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRANGE SOUNDS AND SIGHTS | 3/1/1995 | See Source »

DICK VAN PATTEN On cross, Johnnie Cochran fails to elicit a single mention of Eight Is Enough

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winners & Losers: Feb. 20, 1995 | 2/20/1995 | See Source »

...only effect of this intended moment of high symbolism was to elicit cheers from the already-converted. It was certainly not a substantive action, conveying any sort of reasoned point. Nor did it change anyone's view...

Author: By Bruce L. Gottlieb, | Title: Ignoring the Bell Curve | 2/17/1995 | See Source »

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