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Many computer users still resist the idea of paying for help. Says Hand- Holding Founder Emil Flock: "People expect to get billed when they talk to their doctors and lawyers. But when they talk to a technical-support person, they expect it to be free." There are signs, however, that this attitude may be changing. Robert Refvem, for one, happily plunked down $65 for six months of MicroPro's premium service. "I call them up, I get a technician, I'm off and running," says the Burlingame, Calif., real estate agent. Besides, he adds, "it's the only way they...
...into line--the first, alas, of many at Expo--for two informative and blissfully short movies about the host ; country. Next comes a never failing crowd pleaser, a 3-D extravaganza that among other things, sends a train roaring out into the audience. Then something even more inventive, Director Emil Radok's multi-imaged story of the evolution of communication, ingeniously told on nine interconnected screens...
News Editor for This Issue: Joseph Menn '87 Night Editors: Victoria G.T. Bassetti '87 David S. Hilzenrath '87 Joseph Menn '87 Jennifer L. Mnookin '88 Copy Editor: Hyungji Park '89 Editorial Editors: Emil E. Parker '88 J. Andrew Mendelsohn '87 Photo Editor: Bruce M. Kluckhohn '87 Sports Editor: Geoffrey H. Simon...
...German romanticism. They are seen, by all but a tiny minority of Germans, as mad, bad and dangerous to know: frantic orphans of the fatherland, nut eaters, Nietzscheans, stargazers, communards, Spartacists, reciting overloud yeas to nature and nays to society. Among them are Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Franz Marc, Emil Nolde and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, George Grosz and Otto...
...DIED. Emil Gilels, 68, burly Soviet pianist of powerhouse virtuosity and delicate nuance who with his 1955 U.S. debut reinaugurated a performers' parade of cultural exchanges between the superpowers that had ended before World War II; of undisclosed causes; in Moscow. A prodigy who gave his first public performance at 13, he was a Communist Party member from 1942 on, and his concerts in the West frequently drew pickets as well as enthusiastic audiences. In an attempt to defuse the protests, Gilels once confessed to Western reporters that, yes, he had played for Nikita Khrushchev--but on an American piano...