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...little is known about how the mind works, and less about how the computer might change that process. The neurological researches of Mark Rosenzweig and his colleagues at Berkeley indicate :hat animals trained to learn and assimilate information develop heavier cerebral cortices, more glial cells and bigger nerve cells. But does the computer really stimulate the brain's activity or, by doing so much of its work, permit it to go slack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Computer Moves In | 1/3/1983 | See Source »

...into the cage to loss the 35 lb. weight, it's hard to take him seriously, his 6-ft., 4-in., 188 lb. frame is better suited for the high jump or for running. In the weight throw, most of his opponents are at least 20 or 30 pounds heavier. Yet as soon as Quintero lets go of the ball, he makes it clear that he's no joke...

Author: By Becky Hartman, | Title: Too Scrawny to Throw | 12/15/1982 | See Source »

...razing, not redecoration. Giving the stalwart Brian Dennehy a hunky dimwit (Michael Dudikoff) for a teen-age son and a young daughter (Kathy Maisnik) who is enjoying some success as a country-and-western singer does not make him measurably less like Archie Bunker, even if his brains are heavier and his social conscience a little lighter. In Star of the Family (ABC, Thursdays, 8:30-9 p.m. E.S.T.) Dennehy hangs around the firehouse, an easily irked captain, while his troop of fire fighters bring him the same kinds of problems the barflies import into Archie Bunker's place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Long Reach and Shortfall | 12/6/1982 | See Source »

Regan has posted some amazing personal records for consistent workouts at Harvard, including a four-year streak of uninterrupted training that ended only when he sprained an ankle. He attributes his relatively injury free record to his somewhat heavier build, adding, however, "I would trade it for a little speed...

Author: By Constance M. Laibe, | Title: Andy Regan | 11/18/1982 | See Source »

...facets of the play--the acting the plot and the setting--pivot around a single vision of the stagnancy and decadence of human relationships. It's a heavy responsibility to animate this vision, and it's an even heavier burden for the audience to observe if lot two-and-a half hours in a small basement room at a corner of the labyrinthine passageways below Adams House...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: Behind the Iron Door | 10/27/1982 | See Source »

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