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...just after its Beanpot debacles, nobody would have been terribly surprised. But after showing glimpses of brilliance last week, losing narrowly at Cornell one night and then toying with a good Colgate team for long stretches the next, a lot of people might have expected more from this latest odyssey...
...true, as they say, that a year on the Internet equals seven in the real world, then Deeper: My Two-Year Odyssey in Cyberspace (Simon & Schuster; 288 pages; $25) by John Seabrook might have been an epic. Thank goodness it isn't. A travelogue for the literate geek in all of us, Deeper is packed with useful nuggets of info and insight, but its real virtue lies in what it puts aside: the sweeping Olympian perspective adopted by most "wired" writers...
Half the fun of "Star Wars" comes from taking in all those special effects. Although the technology never approaches the rarefied levels of visual fireworks achieved in "2001: A Space Odyssey," special photographic effects supervisor John Dykstra has pieced together an impressive collection of robots, futuristic weaponry and spaceage interior sets that will keep the eye titillated while the intellectual faculties take five. The spellbinding dogfight and final assault of the Empire's central nervous system that wind up "Star Wars" are particularly noteworthy for the way that Lucas so easily integrates the gimmickry into the climax...
...ROMER'S ODYSSEY...
...business of Peter Segal's My Fellow Americans to throw them together, under pressure (the current President--Dan Aykroyd--is trying to implicate them in a scandal), and let them bicker their way out of trouble. This involves the former leaders in an improbable outside-the-Beltway odyssey. But in its course, they get in close touch with the reality behind the social-policy abstractions they're used to--a homeless family, gay-pride marchers, Elvis impersonators--not to mention their own better natures. We in turn get in touch with two wily comic actors, deftly exchanging well-crafted...