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Computer buffs have thousands of exotic software packages to choose from, but most of them still use their machines largely for five basic tasks: writing, calculating, drawing graphs, organizing data and sending messages over telephone lines. Until recently, the biggest news in software was the arrival of programs like Ashton...
The real question is what the Soviets would be doing during that time. And the answer is all too obvious: taking countermeasures. Many are available, and they generally require less exotic technology than the defense they would be designed to defeat.
Obsession with the movies and immersion in fantasy are themes close to Woody Allen's heart. "My golden years of moviegoing were the '40s," he told TIME Reporter-Researcher Elaine Dutka. "I used to come away from those films with my mind racing, great longings and hopes stirred. You wanted...
Robbins lets his ballerinas down this time. He pinpointed Nichols' strong classicism and Calegari's dramatic flair early in their careers, but in Eight Lines, the two women have impersonal, difficult parts that seem to evaporate. The men are better served, Lavery with wonderfully weighted balances, Andersen with quicksilver darts...
In box-office bucks, there are no real competitors; Ford has starred in five of the ten highest grossers of all time: Star Wars, Return of the Jedi, The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Now, returning from the outer...