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Critical Legal Studies was born during the late 1960s among a group of student activists and younger faculty at Yale Law School. By 1977 C.L.S. adherents had formed a network that now has about 400 members. Its annual conference today attracts roughly 1,000 participants. Proponents hold positions at some of the nation's most prestigious legal institutions, including Stanford and George-town. But with three of the best-known crits--Duncan Kennedy, Morton Horwitz and Roberto Unger--among those on its 64-member faculty, Harvard has become the leading C.L.S. center. "The battle is fiercer here than elsewhere," says...
...CompuServe, with 240,000 subscribers, nearly everybody knows Terry ("Cupcake") Biener. She is the Valley Stream, N.Y., housewife who writes Cupcake's Column, an electronic tattle sheet that reports on the real-life romances of couples who meet on the network. For example, two people whose "handles" on CompuServe were Angel and Malaprop were married last September in a California ceremony filled with "flowers, balloons and water pistols." At the Old Colorado City Electronic Cottage, a bulletin board in Colorado Springs, Colo., used by 8,500 buffs, Proprietor David Hughes does a sort of man-on-the-street reporting...
...Francisco Bay area, the place to be is the Well, where Counterculture Editor Stewart Brand files wry comments on current affairs in the telegraphic style he perfected in the Whole Earth Catalogs. On the Electronic Information Exchange System (EIES) in Newark, Murray Turoff, co-author of the influential Network Nation, brainstorms with a highbrow group of 1,200 executives and writers that has included such luminaries as Author Alvin Toffler...
...case in point: Peter and Trudy Johnson-Lenz, two programmers from Lake Oswego, Ore., have created a slot on Turoff's EIES network devoted to a meditation process they call attunement. When a caller types + ATTUNE and presses the RETURN key, a series of messages selected to calm the spirit and quiet the mind scroll up the screen. "Close your eyes, pause quietly for a few moments and be here now," read the final instructions. "Press RETURN when you feel attuned." --By Philip Elmer-DeWitt. Reported by Robert C. Wurmstedt/Denver
Keeping old shows fresh is a perennial challenge for network programmers. But their efforts have taken on more urgency this fall as a number of long-running hits have begun to sag in the ratings. Dynasty and Dallas, which finished one-two in last year's Nielsens, have slipped to the middle of the top-ten pack. Falcon Crest, another top-ten finisher last season, is now being beaten regularly by Miami Vice. The A-Team, last season's No. 6-ranked show, has dropped to 19th place, and Magnum, P.I., blitzed by competition from the new ratings champion...