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...prime political feeding ground? The main reason is that the Internet is vastly overrated by those who know nothing about it. The Internet seems futuristic--it comes with trendy catch-phrases such as "information superhighway" and "cyberspace." We listen in awe and wonder as CEOs explain to us, in layman's terms, the importance of "networking" and "global resources." With the Internet, they tell us, we can do everything conceivable with the stroke of a few keys. It will make our lives easier. How? Don't know. It just will...
...made a decision at the time to have each quarter devoted to one important subject that each intelligent person would want to know about, whether he was a scientist, social scientist, humanist or alert layman. I knew of no other such American journal," Holton says...
...drama and terror essential to the play. By subverting Macbeth's atmosphere of tragedy, Colapinto's performance ultimately prevents the production from generating the fear and explosive emotion which the play is intended to evovoke. To take the Aristotelian approach, it denies us the catharsis of tragedy. To use layman's terms, it's boring, frustrating and confusing. Either way, a Macbeth played straight seems as if it would have been the better choice; at Saturday's production, Colapinto may have been enjoying a joke, but the audience didn't seem to come away amused...
...case decided by the Louisiana jury last week, plaintiffs' attorney Dawn Barrios presented her case in layman's terms while Dow's lawyers showed up with treatises and textbooks. "You could see the jury's eyes glaze over," she says. Moreover, internal Dow memos explicitly referring to "cover-ups" and calling the marketing of the implants "inexcusable" and "right up there with the Pinto gas tank" did nothing to win sympathy for the company...
...will give Burns' performance. No doubt this production will be watched closely by the effects industry, as well as by Rich Little's agent. Greenberg is promising pretty grand results: "Someone with a trained eye might say there's something not quite human about it. But the average layman will watch it and say, 'Wow! George Burns is alive!'" Either that or "Yikes...