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...Sontag is a willful anachronism and has never been accepted by critics and academics. Unlike Rachmaninov, however, it is doubtful that Sontag's Volcano Lover Work will be embraced by the general public. Now the novelty, the taboo topics have vanished from Sontag's art; a shadow of the pioneer of the '60s has settled into his book...
Early in "The Last of the Mohicans," we see pioneer Natty Bumppo sprinting through the woods of upstate New York, flintlock rifle in hand. The light is dappled, the deer are leaping, and the whole scene is actually being shot on the parklands of a Vanderbilt mansion in the heart of North Carolina. Poor Nathaniel doesn't have any real woods to roam anymore. Instead, he and his Mohican companions are trapped in a contrived, expensive prison: a brainless, phony, bombastic sell-out that reeks of everything evil in Hollywood. It is a depressing piece of work...
...sled across the same neatly clipped grass and around the weathered limestone monument. Their mission: to learn the truth of Lewis' mysterious death by gunshot here on a Tennessee stretch of the Natchez Trace, the old road between Natchez, Mississippi, and Nashville, Tennessee, nearly 183 years ago. Did this pioneer, whose trek to the Pacific Northwest with William Clark has been a staple of grade-school quizzes for generations, take his own life that night at Grinder's Stand? Or was he murdered? "If Lewis had a chance to speak," muses Starrs, "what would he say? The only...
Thinking Machines had sold its Connection Machine 5, described in trade publication as "a sleek black box with red blinking lights," to re- search institutions such as Los Alamos NationalLaboratory and Stanford University. The companyhas also been a pioneer in marketing its hugelypowerful computers to commercial customers such asAmerican Express and Dow Jones...
...dozens of mostly black and Latino students at the Maxine Waters Employment Preparation Center gathered for an open-air press conference in the school parking lot last month, Peter Ueberroth, the chairman of Rebuild L.A., lavished praise on executives of Japan's Pioneer Electronics (U.S.A.), who had just donated $600,000 to the Watts vocational school, created after the 1965 riots. "This company did this on their own," Ueberroth said, "because it should be good business for them to recognize the importance of the inner city...