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...pioneers of the small computer business will also soon face stiff competition from the Japanese, who will begin landing their first machines in the U.S. this spring. Commodore Founder Jack Tramiel warned a group of executives recently: "Gentlemen, the Japanese are coming." Representatives of Hitachi, Toshiba, Mitsubishi and NEC (Nippon Electric) have all paid calls on U.S. retailers to find out what products Americans want and how much they are prepared to pay. The Japanese are expected to enter the market with state-of-the-art machines that will be cheaper than competing American products. The first arrival is likely...
...chivalry and shitkickers, because it is the only region which still seems to have a sense of place. Texas is a joke. The South, we hope, is not. It is the place of exaggeration--the vegetation is lusher, the corruption is more colorful, the women are more beautiful, the gentlemen more chivalrous. In the South, the story goes, there's that Southern hospitality. The Blacks are more Black, the racists more obvious, it's the best of low comedy mixed with lofty aspirations--that part of the nation which always has its formal fly unzipped. Some things, we would like...
...swimming pool and a gym, a library and-not least-two lounges where girls and boys could play Glenn Miller records or backgammon, or subtler games of eye and inflection. Until Mae Sibley arrived at the stroke of 10 p.m. and announced that it was time for the gentlemen to withdraw. Good night, Miss Sibley. Good night, Barbizon...
...When the Eagles leave Philadelphia this week for New Orleans, Vermeil will set up a rerun of training camp. Super Bowl hoopla leaves him unimpressed: "I don't give a damn for parties, ceremonies, celebrations. To me, there's only one way to enjoy a football game, gentlemen, and that...
...good on its threat, and still remains as lucid as an aerialist on a high wire. It moves with the loping energy of a crafty psychopath, or of film makers gripped with the potential of blowing the moviegoer's mind out through his eyes and ears. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Altered States...