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...happens around people who succeed, there are prophecies "remembered" from Michael's school days about his future prowess. But a classmate, Mikki Ansin, says great things were predicted of many students at that forced-pace high school. "We all got the message -- we were headed somewhere." Brookline has been hospitable to strivers -- about a third of the population Dukakis grew up with was Jewish. Today about 20% of the community is made up of industrious South Asians...
...will use the lights for his first and third presentations. He will use films, multi-screen projections, and sound sources as essential sections--not illustrations--of his lectures. Steve Nelson of the Boston Tea Party and Mikki Myers of the Batolph Art Center in Boston will help Cox run the light show...
...Mikki was what Ellen Vaughn had instead of God. He was a strange deity chock-full of panels, bobbins, and spools of wire. His memory was perfect and his playback repertory ran to 463,635 recorded hours. Ellen's late father, an audio-research addict, had fed Mikki everything: Bach, stock-market predictions, forgotten pre-Edison records. "Some jukebox!" said her younger brother Charles, admiringly. But Mikki was more than a giant jukebox; he was first cousin to all the electronic brain machines whose touted destiny is to make modern man obsolete...
Without conscious malice, Mikki just about erased the Vaughns. Among Mikki's victims-as Ellen learns in playback sessions-were her stubborn father and brilliant elder brother. She hears the two in vicious argument over how best to exploit the machine's commercial possibilities, then grappling together on the ledge of the family's Manhattan penthouse, at last silent as they topple to their deaths. Casually, the unblinking Mikki goes on to expose the most shattering truth of all: the nice young gent who has been praising Ellen's pretty blue eyes is really trying...
Ellen holes up like a recluse with the infernal machine, gradually realizes that Mikki is a modern vampire sucking the life out of all human relationships. In an unintentionally funny kiss-off scene, she turns to the monster-marvel and says softly: "I don't like your soul..." Then, hauling out a heavy automatic, she riddles Mikki beyond repair...