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Eliade was born in Bucharest, when Rumania still turned its eyes West for cultural inspiration. One early encounter, when he was "four or five," was a portent of things to come. He saw a young girl who had "the largest eyes I have ever seen [and] black curls that fell to her shoulders." He knew even then, he claims, that "something extraordinary and decisive had occurred...
Sesame Place's foray into sales of computer learning programs (see preceding story) appears to be a portent of the educational future. Another sign of the times is the launching, this week, of a new magazine, Electronic Learning. Put out by the respected educational publisher Scholastic, Inc., Electronic Learning is essentially a nontechnical guide to technical learning aids. Financed initially with $500,000, the magazine is being sent free to 50,000 educators and administrators responsible for buying equipment and trying to evaluate the rapidly expanding and confusing field of electronic learning devices. By devoting itself largely to information...
After the simple shocks of Dressed to Kill, De Palma is out to deploy subtler strategies. As a result, Blow Out is less scary but more skillful. One sequence, involving a murderous attack in a Philadelphia train station, tantalizes with portent and discretion. From outside a toilet stall, we see only the victim's feet fluttering beneath the door and then falling still, the limbs of this defenseless animal at rest at last. And twice De Palma exhibits his favorite technique to suggest confusion and resolution: the camera describes circles-four, six, a dozen-around his characters, ribboning them...
...indoor track team's 94-59 drubbing of Brown Saturday holds any portent of the kind of season the thinclads have ahead of them, then the stars certainly look propitious for the trackmen, and it may well turn into a season to remember...
Walker was listed as a third-string tailback in the first game against Tennessee. However, he was put into the game in the second quarter and scored his first touchdown, sparking a Georgia rally from a 1 5-2 deficit. That run was a portent of things to come: seemingly trapped behind the line, he darted between two tacklers, then knocked a third onto his back, and went into the end zone standing...