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...Nelligan describes it, there was no flash of light when she first stood on a stage, no epiphany or dreams of glory. Just the opposite: she was comfortable. "I didn't feel elated or ecstatic, just at home." She wanted to stay in such a pleasant place-the theater, that is. In her second year, she auditioned for London's Central School of Speech and Drama, which was seeing applicants at Yale. She was accepted, but then ran into a problem: insufficient funds...
Whether Mailer's work goes down "as a strange aberrations flash...or as one of the most seminal and enduring voices in contemporary literary history remains to be determined," Mills notes in the final chapter. But it is certain that the author's life alone will be remembered for its enormous and diverse undertakings. Arranged in strictly chronological form, the biography seems to gather together all of Mailer's activities--starting with his career as a Harvard engineering major--together with hundreds of quotes from wives, editors, friends and the like. This technique creates a many-sided view...
...less important than this kind of drill, which some critics compare with the old-fashioned flash cards, is the use of computers to teach children about computers. They like to learn programming, and they are good at it, often better than their teachers, even in the early grades. They treat it as play, a secret skill, unknown among many of their parents. They delight in cracking corporate security and filching financial secrets, inventing new games and playing them on military networks, inserting obscene jokes into other people's programs. In soberer versions that sort of skill will become a necessity...
...picked up at the mid-Manhattan branch of the New York City Public Library. Librarian Donald Alexis spotted the suspect when the bespectacled Lewis, wearing blue jeans, walked by the librarian's fourth-floor reference desk. "I just glanced up at him," Alexis said, "and in a flash, something seemed familiar." Alexis then rechecked the man's features against those on an FBI poster tacked up in the staff room. When federal agents arrived, the fugitive was at a table quietly copying names and addresses of newspapers from a reference book. The agents surrounded Lewis, who was unarmed...
...stray steel chip, perhaps a burr from a screw, in an exhaust vent of the suit's oxygen supply system. If the fragment had been in the pure oxygen area and caused a spark (by hitting a wall, for example), it might have touched off a catastrophic flash fire, killing Lenoir and possibly ripping a fatal hole in Columbia's sides as well. In fact, a suit did catch fire in a test at Houston two years ago; fortunately no one was wearing it. It was so incinerated that not enough was left to pin down the cause...