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Unlike Mandela, who often exhorts South Africans to forget the past, Sparks wants them to remember. The object lesson of his narrative is not how complicated the negotiating process was but how dicey and tentative, how easily it might have gone off the rails. Divisions within the a.n.c. and the National Party proved more dangerous than discord between them. During the narrative, Mandela and De Klerk emerge not as ideologues or saviors but as hard-headed pragmatists and canny politicians...
...AMATO. He called a press conference at a Manhattan restaurant not to discuss Whitewater or debate the balanced-budget amendment but to gush and blush, tell the world that he is in love and even sing a few bars of It's a Sin to Tell a Lie. The object of his affection is CLAUDIA COHEN, the multimillionairess ex-wife of Revlon chairman Ron Perelman and the current gossip correspondent for TV's Live with Regis and Kathy Lee. "I feel like the frog who has been kissed by the princess," said D'Amato. "I think of Claudia...
...cited as the glowing exception to the restrictive European pattern. In the early 1980s, the French government launched Minitel -- a small-screen unit with a keyboard that plugs into a normal telephone wall outlet to connect users with a wide variety of information services. Minitel is now a familiar object in many French homes, partly because of its reputation -- deserved -- as a commercial conduit for suppliers of both hard and soft porn. Despite that sleaze factor, Minitel set the standard during the 1980s as the world's first truly practical and inexpensive provider of interactive services for a mass market...
...reaches into the milk crate and heaves out a rectangular object made of yellow metal. Mom hauls out another one. She and Dad begin lining them up on the counter, like King and Queen Midas unloading a carton of Twinkies...
...tell motels of America. The real cybersex conquistadores employ the networks to seduce distant lovers and keep a kind of score of their ``hits.'' Not everyone who does this is male, by the way. Indeed, recently on America Online, a woman with the handle ``Stolen Kisses'' became the object of many others' fancy after she wrote an article in Penthouse magazine titled ``Confessions of a Cyberslut.'' While it was once the case that women willing to engage in erotic give-and-take on the networks were in short supply, they are becoming much more prevalent as the medium expands...