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...crusade as a campaign. "This is almost like Cinderella," he says. "You wander into the wrong place, and you lose your shoe, and all of a sudden, you're a presidential candidate." He may not be a Powell, but Lamm does have some advantages over Perot, mainly being a fresher face with proven electability and governing experience, more campaign mileage and a subtle sense of humor. "Ross Perot, to his credit, has built a party bigger than himself," Lamm deadpans. "That's what he intended...
...creators are focusing on fresher paranoias: Gibson's new novel, Idoru (Putnam), due in September, is a ghost story of sorts. And a second September book, Holy Fire (Bantam), by Bruce Sterling, another godfather of cyberpunk, is about intergenerational war. It's set 100 years in the future, in an age ruled by a wealthy centenarian gerontocracy whose disenfranchised children are readying a revolution based on the terrifying new cognitive landscapes offered by man-computer interfaces...
Nostalgia comes quickly in the '90s. We watch VH1's The Big '80s and laugh at the silly videos we thought were so cool only about seven years back; we yearn for the funnier, fresher David Letterman of, oh, about a year or so ago; perhaps some of us are already feeling misty-eyed in the wake of ABC's announcement last week that Daniel Benzali--who helped make baldness telegenic--will be departing from Murder One next season...
...subject that the two sides have to keep an eye on each other because each immediately affects the air the other breathes. If, just to take this year's crisis, either side should start to allow same-sex marriages, the air over both of them would instantly seem fresher to some citizens and quite poisonous to others. Perhaps there should be talks...
...than for an HRDC production. Every student at the Institute went through the college theater experience already or worked on commercial productions before. They had to demonstrate a lot to get into the two-year program, according to Institute Admissions. But they distinguished themselves by showing greater conviction and fresher ideas than the other applicants. Each year a mere 20 to 25 survive...