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There is no background music, but the theme from Star Wars would be appropriate. On a white grid that rolls off into blue infinity, the name Gary Hart appears in silvery letters. With the aid of computer animation, the screen seems to become a book, flipping open page by page. Page 1: a close-up shot of a youthful-looking Hart in a coat and tie speaking directly into the camera. "The politicians of yesterday are trading our future by asking our price instead of challenging our idealism." Page 2: Hart framed from fore head to chin by the television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing Video Games | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

...closest matches, freshman in-grid Boyum took the number two match, 15-10 in the fifth set. Captain Betsy Howe, though, dropped a five-setter at the number six slot by one point...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Racquetwomen Snag First Ivy Title | 2/29/1984 | See Source »

...computer screen has a 512-line horizontal by a 342-line vertical grid, and the use of square dots--rather than the standard rectangular ones--at each of the almost 200,000 line crossings adds to the sharpness of the picture...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: The Apple of Everyone's Eye | 2/25/1984 | See Source »

...mile forward, they also looked two miles back. Their inherent structure had nothing to do with German or any other kind of modernist expressionism. It was closer to cubism, but with the turning and flickering of cubist shape given a jostling density, almost literally made flesh: a shallow grid torn and reconstituted by the wristy, virile, probing action of de Kooning's line. His two near monochrome abstractions at the end of the decade, Attic, 1949, and Excavation, invoke the body without depicting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Painting's Vocabulary Builder | 1/9/1984 | See Source »

Neil Livingstone, author of The War Against Terrorism, contends that much can be done to discourage the phenomenon in the U.S. He claims that vulnerable power stations, telecommunications facilities and the power-line grid system should be better guarded, and he advocates a federal antiterrorism law so that the FBI can more readily assist in investigations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shadow of Terrorism | 12/26/1983 | See Source »

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