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...government and authority, for one thing. Oddly, however, the trauma had its creative side. The events that shattered the American faith in authority also had a sometimes chaotically liberating effect, breaking old molds and freeing the imagination to create new forms, new movements (environmentalism, say, or feminism), new companies, high-tech ideas that might have been stifled by traditional lines of authority. No doubt the enormous baby-boom generation would have effected changes anyway. But the war brought with it gusts of wild energy. "Freedom," said the lyric, "is just another word for nothing left to lose...
TAKE A CLASSIC TALE of medieval love and romance, add a dash of Runyonesque comic relief, a soupcon of high-tech editing a jazzy MTV soundtrack and seal it with a magical spell and you've got Ladyhawke. This cinematic hodgepodge of seemingly incompatible elements really resolves itself into an eighties version of the Arthurian romance, replete with ladies fair and valiant men of arms...
Strauss is in good company. Millions of Americans have plunked down hundreds, even thousands of dollars apiece for computers that turned out to be high-tech white elephants. Owners of low-cost home computers have been particularly hard hit. Among them, they have 2 million Texas Instruments 99/ 4As, 1 million Commodore VIC 20s, 700,000 Timex Sinclair 1000s, 200,000 Coleco Adams, 135,000 Franklin Aces and now at least 250,000 IBM PCjrs--all of them orphans...
Romero, the only candidate who has held public office, said government funds would be difficult to come by. Instead, she said she intends to introduce legislation which would encourage high-tech industry to come to Roxbury and to train employees from the area...
...recent decades, a dichotomy has emerged in the city between a strong downtown economy and impoverished neighborhoods, said the populist mayor. "A major reason for the dichotomy between the neighborhoods and downtown is the lack of education and basic skills necessary to compete in the information-based and high-tech economy found in Boston," he said to an audience of about 50 people...