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This week America's richest and most famous computer nerd will unveil his latest venture: an office software system that could connect computers, phones, copiers, fax machines and printers into a seamless digital web, thus permitting them to exchange information and circulate documents electronically. The system -- based on Microsoft's wildly successful Windows software -- could lead to a new wave of advanced office machines that would, for example, allow someone to write a memo and instantly send it to the computer screens of his staff members, the photocopier down the hall, his boss's printer, and the fax machines...
...whose best previous plays (Sweet Sue, Love Letters) also centered on the disruptive consequences of love unpursued. Gurney is often pegged as an elegist for the waning Wasp. In Later Life he makes great efforts to usher in characters outside that stereotype. They are Irish, Jewish, Texan and techno-nerd; one woman is a lesbian, one man gay, and these two fully transcend sketch comedy to offer poignant glimpses of self-destructive lives. Predictably, however, the central figure is a Wasp, and an uptight one at that...
...have the nerd world and the third world, but Cabot is too diverse to assign one type," Fonseca says...
...There was a time when Currier was said to be the place where the nerd world meets the third world," she says. "Perhaps this is what people say now about Cabot...
...Amours, Pialat has sullenly railed against the strictures of French bourgeois life. In Van Gogh, he has found a kindred spirit; for both, artistic compromise is a crime against humanity. Jacques Dutronc plays the painter as a | troubled man (but not a madman) with a mission, a sort of nerd for art. Full of graceful compositions and expansive conversation, Van Gogh is an eyeful. And an earful...