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VIDEO GAMES FLATTEN BOREDOM. They project the banality of the assembly line onto two-dimensional electronic hallucinogenics. Their garish griminess is as dipped in materialism as the somber sootiness of the factory. Like factories, they furnish the means of subsistence--a numbingly overspiced gruel of colorful flashes, bangs, whooshes, titillating, not nourishing the senses. Their predictability flexes but little the imagination. Punching in the clock; pressing the start button. Filing form A and tightening bolt C evokes the practiced and repetitive pacing of the player's dot across a screen. Punching out the clock; GAME OVER...
...killed, and every Sunday for a year, 36 were whipped before the church doors. By the mid-18th century, the cat was back in favor. Frederick the Great thought so highly of cats he made them official guards of his army's stores and ordered conquered towns to furnish supplies of cats. The Industrial Revolution greatly expanded the middle class and accelerated the re-entry of felines into social acceptance by employing them in rodent-infested cities and celebrating them in prose and popular song...
...concentration is highly dependent on graduate students to teach its tutorials--but it is no graduate students of its own. Thus, Social Studies must rely on other social science departments to supply graduate students, but as the faculty report stated, "Some departments have never been able or willing to furnish tutors in Social Studies...
...furnish the stage on which his strange cast converge, Stone takes his cue from Joseph Conrad, who set Nostromo in an imaginary South American republic called Costa-guana. Stone squeezes Tecan and its more progressive neighbor Compostela into a fictional space between Nicaragua and Costa Rica, and then provides topography and politics. The land here is racked periodically by earthquakes; when Holliwell arrives in Tecan, he senses the tremors of revolution as well. The local dictator, propped up by U.S. support and sadistic National Guardsmen wearing reflecting sunglasses, may have finally pushed his brutalized subjects too far. He is driving...
Under Nasser, Egyptian policy focused on improving defense and the economy. The Soviet Union, by agreeing to furnish arms and finance important industrial projects, provided the answer to this problem. Yet Sadat, while supporting this alliance, was wary. He realized that by depending solely on the Russians, Egypt put a leash on itself. In 1972, two years after he succeeded Nasser, Sadat ordered the withdrawal of most Soviet personnel in Egypt. He did this, as he later claimed, to "show the whole world that we are always our own masters...