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...haven't been getting their tax bills. If they don't pay $20,000 in back taxes in four days, the house will be auctioned off. In typical Brady fashion, Carol (Shelly Long, who must really need work) and Mike try to keep this from the kids. Cindy (Olivia Hack, with a perfect lisp) finds out and tattles, which isn't much of a surprise. The six kids then spend the rest of the film brain-storming money-making schemes...

Author: By Theodore K. Gideonse, | Title: Brady Bunch Redux | 2/23/1995 | See Source »

...first glance, "Strawberry and Chocolate" seems like a Cuban version of the Manuel Puig/Hector Babenco "Kiss of the Spider Woman." There is the flamboyant gay man, the uptight, straight Marxist and lots of political oppression. Straw-berry and Chocolate" also contains the maudlin elements of what in hack reviewer parlance is called a "feel-good movie." However, it is the critique of Cuban society as it stands and the glimpse into a decaying Havana which make Gutierrez Alea's film so pointed and topical. "Strawberry and Chocolate" makes a plea for tolerance, a virtue not much in evidence in Castro...

Author: By Joel Villasenor-ruiz, | Title: Alea's Tropical, Topical 'Strawberry' Dips Into Castro Critique | 2/16/1995 | See Source »

...arrest yesterday of Kevin Mitnick ? described as the world''s most notorious computer hacker ? raises troubling new questions about commercial interactions in cyberspace, says TIME technology writer Josh Quittner. Mitnick, 31, was able over the years to hack into various computer systems and get access to privileged information from big-name companies like Digital, Motorola and NEC. He also obtained a copy of credit card numbers of 20,000 members of Netcom, a San Jose-based Internet provider. "If Netcom can''t keep those numbers secure, how can L.L. Bean?" says Quittner. Most troubling is the fact Mitnick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HACKER A BAD OMEN FOR CYBERSPACE SECURITY | 2/16/1995 | See Source »

...married. Write on both sides of the page--single-blue-book finals look like less work to grade, and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good five extra points if you can hack...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply | 1/18/1995 | See Source »

...engineers like to say, a clever hack -- one that touched the basic urge in computer users to control the world through their keyboards -- and it soon spawned imitators. At the University of Cambridge, for example, British students aimed a camera at the computer lab's coffeepot and transmitted, on demand, digital snapshots of the state of the brew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Snowballs in Cyberspace | 1/16/1995 | See Source »

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