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...from the midst of the seated group, banners sprouted: "Hands off Czechoslovakia!" "Shame on the occupiers!" Among the seven demonstrators were Larisa Daniel, wife of Author Yuli Daniel, now serving a labor camp sentence for writing anti-Soviet material; Pavel Litvinov, grandson of Russia's wartime Foreign Minister, Maxim Litvinov; Viktor Feinberg, an art critic; and Poet Natalya Gorbanevskaya, who had brought along her three-month...
...acre industrial park. But the locomotive pulling them all will be Disney's Amusement Theme Park, a mecca for fun lovers that will support every other part of a Disney world. All this, of course, is in accordance with the Disneyland Effect's guiding maxim: Money is where...
...grind a metaphor to dust faster than Godard, and in this pacifist fable, he grinds out dozens of familiar antiwar gambits. But this time the man ner enhances the material, and man ages to prove Borges' maxim correct...
...fault in the communications system. The HAL computers cannot make mistakes and a confirmation of the error would necessitate disconnection. At this point the balance shifts again: Bowman asks HAL to explain his mistake and HAL denies it, attributing it to "human error"; we are reminded of the maxim, "a bad workman blames his tools," and realize HAL is acting from a distinctly human point-of-view in trying to cover up his error...
...nonetheless reject as much as they borrow from the grand guru of gyration. Not that she minds. "I am particularly pleased," she says, "that there are no replicas of me in the field. Everyone should be doing something else, meeting their own challenge." In other words, echoing the hippie maxim, do your own thing. That they have-and their disparate styles might well be summed up as Tuned-in, Turned-On, Dropped-Out and Flipped...