Word: nirvanas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard--the real Harvard--is big. Not as big as, say, the federal government, but big nonetheless. And what the University lacks in size, it makes up for in bureaucracy. I have now spent three years in this northeastern nirvana, and not a week goes by in which I don't discover at least one new administrative department that is completely unable to solve my problems...
...Junior's girl Susie (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is a mystery. A sweet cracker from upstate, this Princess Not-So-Bright is grateful to Junior for the minutest graces: he eats her cooking and doesn't beat her. She and the con are lost souls sharing a postcard vision of Nirvana: a cloudless beach, a dog leaping for a Frisbee, a cruise ship navigating the horizon. Unremarkable. For Junior and Susie, unattainable...
...daunting. Here is an especially slick and simple piece of software that doesn't stint on wizardry and exudes a comforting, almost cozy familiarity. It turns any IBM or compatible machine (sorry, not Apple) into a fully functioning appointment calendar and phone directory -- a Filofax on a monitor. Yuppie nirvana! But wait. Lots of software can do similar stunts. Portex actually prints out addresses and lunch dates on supplied paper that fits snugly into a Filofax diary or any standard loose-leaf organizer. A word-processing program is included for aspiring PC Pepyses, but the real fun of Portex...