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...everybody else read the newspapers," says Strauss, a hotel night auditor from Waltham, Mass. But he got no takers, even at 40% off the $1,399 list price. Fifteen months after its arrival on the market, the PCjr had joined the ranks of the computer "orphans." Because it was forsaken by its maker, its owner was likely to face ever dwindling supplies of parts, programs and peripheral devices...
...bumbling rebels, but he seems no racist; he tars all his characters, black and white, with the same broad satirical brush. With very little exertion, the spectator can convince himself he is laughing not only at a primitive with a Coke fetish but at himself and the whole gods- forsaken human race. By Richard Corliss...
...Having forsaken the summit of the terpsichorean mount. That's Dancing, through various approaches, reveals the slopes to be full of unusual treasures. The brisk journey drags in only a few spots. Dancers, like athletes, often move better than they speak, and the introductions they offer to the five sections are generally useless...
Only blacks voted overwhelmingly for Mondale, choosing him by 91% to 9%. To some black political strategists, that is ominous news. They fear the Democratic Party will move sharply to the right in order to recover all the other voting groups that have forsaken it. Says Ronald Walters, a Howard University political scientist who was Jesse Jackson's deputy campaign manager: "There will not be many people left who are willing to listen to the concerns of the Rainbow Coalition...
...Both Adams exist within each person and are mandated by God, Soloveitchik holds, but in modern times the first Adam threatens to overwhelm the second, and has even become "demonic." When the second Adam begins to speak the language of faith, writes the Rav, he "finds himself lonely, forsaken, misunderstood, at times even ridiculed by Adam the first, by himself...