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Backlash incidents prove that the public is not yet willing to give up the old ways and embrace a new technology with open arms. While the vision of better things to come gives promise, the hype and aura surrounding something "new" should not be glibly swallowed without thought...
...path that brought him to us took Handy, 35, through two famous training grounds for American satirists of his generation. In 1987 he began writing for Spy magazine, the acid monthly known for "its witty, savagely elegant deconstructions of the hype, venality and sheer short-fingered vulgarity that marked the past decade." (That quote comes from the Milestones item that Handy wrote last month about Spy's folding after seven years of nipping at the heels of power.) From there he went on to write Weekend Update for Saturday Night Live. That, says Handy, gave him good practice...
...been a great year for Art Deco. The hype for Barbra Streisand's auction of her extensive Deco collection has been almost as impressive as the objects themselves. And now the Coen brothers, Ethan and Joel, have made a movie in which the massive moderne settings by production designer Dennis Gassner and the glowing light cast on them by cinematographer Roger Deakins make you wonder how a decorative style at once so sleek and warm could ever have fallen out of favor...
Says David Foster, who produced The Power of Love: "I truly, truly believe in my heart that Celine is the world's next superstar." That could be dismissed as so much hype, except that Foster knows quite a bit about superstars. He produced Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You and has also worked with Streisand, Natalie Cole and Frank Sinatra in the past three years. "Celine is right there," he says. "She's in that company...
Despite all the media coverage and national hype, there is a sense that AIDS is something remote, relevant only to small percentages of the population. "HIV and AIDS has forced us to face things that we liked to have behind closed doors," says Linda Frazier, a health educator at University Health Services. "It brings to the forefront all of our differences and hang ups about what the realities of our lives are. We want to believe that it's US versus THEM, the morally right. versus those who just don't act right. We're not willing to address...