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...people who were successful is that they came out with pride," said Friskopp, a senior manager at a high-tech communications company in San Diego. "The fear of coming out far exceeded the actual consequences...
...which worked because Simpson was wealthy enough to hire lawyers and investigators to dig up proof of racially motivated police misconduct. It is no more unethical for Simpson's team to employ such a strategy than it was for Clarence Thomas to claim he was being subjected to a "high-tech lynching" during his Supreme Court confirmation hearings. As Cochran explained to me last week, "any lawyer who didn't go after that would be guilty of malpractice...
...just happened to be black. He has shown a facility for Shakespearean comedy (Much Ado About Nothing), as well as for Spike Lee drama (Mo' Better Blues). In just the past four months Washington has had starring roles in three very different films: the submarine drama Crimson Tide, the high-tech thriller Virtuosity and the murder-mystery Devil in a Blue Dress, which opens this week...
Cybercafes (which typically charge $5 to $10 an hour to log on, though many provide discounted or free access with the purchase of food and drink) offer other high-tech icebreakers as well, such as CD-ROMs and new videogames. In Los Angeles, Cyber Java draws crowds with its videophone facilities. Cyber Cafe offers classes in Net navigation and Web-page authoring. At Cybersmith in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the country's grandest computer playland cum restaurant, regulars can congregate around a virtual-reality flight simulator ready for testing...
...building's ATMS look like jukeboxes. Mostly, however, the museum rises above Hard Rock Cafe-style gimmickry by showing respect for the music and its origins. Still, rock by nature resists institutionalization--the Lollapalooza tour, only in its fifth year, already seems stale. Museum officials plan to open a high-tech theater later this year in the hope that holographic concerts, online music events and other technology-rich experiences being created will help keep the institution fresh and relevant. After all, the last thing a rock museum should seem like is something that belongs in, well, a museum...