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...INSTANT INFORMATION, THE HARD facts on everything from coping with troubled toddlers to touring Nepal are just a video-club membership away. But in Orange County, Calif., the how-to tape has gone beyond providing a sort of microwave education for the perpetually preoccupied. Last week former nurse Linda Dunlap ran into both praise and scorn for a video she produced to teach homeless men and women how to scavenge the trash for contaminant-free food. Staged in a talk-show format, the tape is five parts useless banter and one part helpful instruction. Warnings include avoiding discarded dairy products...
Like Hamlet as he strolled the ramparts of Elsinore castle, Danish voters last week confronted a dramatic dilemma: to be, or not to be fully a part of the new Europe. Their answer, which provoked an instant volley of slings and arrows from the nation's outraged Community partners, was an astounding no. By a 50.7% majority, meaning roughly 48,000 votes out of nearly 4 million cast, Danes voted in a referendum not to ratify the treaty of Maastricht, a landmark agreement that pledges the Community to monetary as well as political union by the end of the century...
...BOTTOM LINE: A creaky plot, predictable characters, recycled pop tunes, instant uplift, no style -- how can it miss...
...banned in the building, and this tower, like offices all over the city, has its share of addicts grabbing a quick drag right outside the front doors. There is something not quite right about this. Bureaucracy and fluorescent lights should be complemented by cigarettes and bad coffee with instant creamer...
Hypnotism, I learned from these half-hour jaunts through caves and graveyards, was mystical indeed. In an instant, a person (or dog) could be drawn into a seemingly snooze-like state and become malleable to instructions like "cluck like a chicken." Hypnotism was a truth serum, a behavior transformation inducer, a trip into the unknown and untreated side of the human consciousness...