Word: ma
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kaplan recalls strolling down to the Eliot House common room to watch Yo-Yo Ma '76 perform, and great films like The Godfather and Taxi Driver showing in the Square...
...genially subversive Franco-Belgian Ma Vie en Rose, the town where Ludo and his family live is cheerily color-coordinated (each garage door is painted a different pastel), but the emotions that the boy's cross-dressing provokes are darker. Everyone goes instantly agog. Wives scold; husbands threaten. Schoolboys turn into bullies, ready to take the natural law into their own hands. The film, directed by Alain Berliner from an original script by Chris vander Stappen, has the scheme of a socially fretful TV movie. Yet at heart, Ma Vie en Rose is a delightful comedy, both in its buoyant...
This is no tract; all the characters have reasons for their outbursts. But the film is most sympathetic to Ludo's desperate, deadpan certitude that he'd enjoy being a girl. Like last year's magnificent Ponette, Ma Vie en Rose is an inside report--neither cloying nor condescending--from the enchanted, irradiated island of childhood...
Perhaps it would be convenient to have a Web browser built into Windows. But remember that two decades ago, it was convenient to get local and long-distance phone service from one vendor--Ma Bellsystem. This meant absurdly high prices too since the phone company had no competition...
...professor LAWRENCE LESSIG completes a study of the company's business practices as they relate to federal antitrust law. A Lessig conclusion that Microsoft's plan to knit Explorer into the upcoming Windows 98 system violates antitrust statutes could mean the biggest antitrust battle since the Feds broke up Ma Bell in the 1980s. The stakes? Just the future of Windows; which is to say the PC; which is to say the Net; which is to say human civilization as we know it. Both Lessig's report and Win 98 are due next spring. But for now, lawyers and lobbyists...