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...Mayer comes to taking a point of view is to underline the play's presumption that history is made by men, not social forces: he ends many scenes with one or two figures frozen in silhouette. The acting is mostly serviceable, with three happy exceptions: John Heard as Prince Hal is unmistakably regal even in his giddiest antics; Bruce McGill rockets with energy as Hotspur; and John McMartin proves imperiously perfect as King Henry IV but insufficiently charismatic, if cunning, as Falstaff. W.A.H...
Automatic speech recognition, the technology that enables computers to respond to spoken commands, is old hat to fictional electronic brains like HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey, but still a primitive art in the real world. Computers are not yet discerning enough to cope with the ambiguities of spoken language or with a wide range of accents and tonal qualities. Making sense out of human discourse, says Dataquest Analyst Kenneth Lim, "is quite possibly the most difficult thing for a computer to do, other than actually thinking...
...they often recruit unknowns and has-beens. When Don Tolle of Atlanta started his Noble Vision country-music label in 1979, he had no artists. He tracked down Jim Glaser, a once successful singer who had grown fat and unhappy playing in motel bars. After finding a financial backer, Hal Oven, they recorded an old song of Glaser's and turned it into a hit by making phone calls to 1,100 radio stations. That led to an album, The Man in the Mirror, which has stayed on the country charts for 67 weeks, a smash by any measure...
Other executive officers include Bagger Barry Pearlstein '86, Check Casher Chris Carroll '86, Assistant Store Manager Randi Cohen '86, Floor Manager Hal Burstein '86, and Pricer Alison Caplan...
...done about it." Some of the syndicate's bookies were holding back too much of the profits. One such deadbeat, Ferriola declared, was Leonard Yaras, the North Side betting boss. "Yaras has to go," Ferriola said. "He's putting our money in his pocket." Another sports bookie, Hal Smith, was said not to be giving the Mob any cut at all. According to the Mob source, Ferriola contended that Charles (Chuckie) English, 70, once an aide to former Chicago Boss Sam Giancana, was trying to regain the power he had lost after Giancana was killed in 1975. Complained Ferriola: "Chuckie...