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Context: The urbane garden party at which I met Keanu was a low-stress situation. He didn't have to deliver a teleprompted speech the next day. He was there to have a little fun until the sun came up over Santa Monica Boulevard. Barbra was buried in a swarm of Harvard security, while Keanu merely...
...Financed by $1.4 million in federal grants and private donations, the machines help the settlement-house staffs coordinate their work and give neighborhood residents the opportunity to cruise the highway, have access to government databases, exchange E-mail and otherwise sample cyberspace's many wonders. The city of Santa Monica, California, has started a public electronic network, installing 15 public- access terminals in places such as banks, community centers and even grocery stores. Anyone who wants to -- including the homeless -- can get online information about city services, make E-mail connections to city officials and local members of Congress...
...prominent here as in few other stagings. Arkel represents an ancien ragime that refuses to cede power, quashing the aspirations of the younger generation, represented by the angry, violent Golaud (bass-baritone Willard White), his younger half brother Pelleas (baritone Francois Le Roux) and Melisande (mezzo Monica Groop), the mysterious girl Pelleas meets in the forest and brings home as his bride. The Simpson connection was coincidental, but the color-blind casting of White, who is black, creates an unintentional, tabloidy frisson...
...Cantonese. Just ask the Jackie fans who track down his movies in the Chinatowns of U.S. cities or visit specialized video stores. "Jackie Chan's work is as popular with our customers as anything by Orson Welles or Francis Coppola," says Meg Johnson, buyer for Videots, a smart Santa Monica outlet. Finding a Chan film under its multiplicity of titles is one challenge. Another can be watching it, in washed-out, nth-generation dupes with indifferent dubbing or Japanese subtitles (or none at all) and with the sides of the wide-screen images lopped...
...lifelong job or the pension that accompanies it. Those doubts help explain why more than 25 million American workers now take the wise step of investing in 401(k) and similar savings programs, up from fewer than 16 million in 1988. ``I'm looking out for myself,'' says Monica Phillips, 26, a Boston marketing executive who puts 10% of her $45,000 salary in her company's 401(k) and other investments. ``With layoffs and cutbacks, I need to save for my future...