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...trying to prepare its passengers for this reduction in subway safety with large posters in subway cars that announce that the cryptic "OPTO" will soon be featured on some subway lines. The acronym OPTO is spelled in huge letters; underneath, in smaller characters, the poster informs passengers that OPTO actually stands for One Person Train Operation. Does the MTA really believe that people are so gullible that the use of an acronym written in foot high letters will convince them that this policy is desirable? What's next, posters trumpeting EDAT to prepare travelers for Extra Derailments At Night...
Second, the college must improve the dining and transportation services it offers to upperclass students reporting early. Scores of us show up before the first meal of move-in week--Thursday's lunch--to proctor exams and host events for Orientation Week, train for athletic teams or table and poster for extracurricular recruitment...
...shutdown naturally distresses a great many people who now must bury old personas and migrate to new remailers. "There's a freedom to speak when you're anonymous," says a 39-year-old woman, a frequent poster to alt.sex.recovery who had used Helsingius' service since its inception. For years her deepest confidants knew her as an145396@anon.penet.fi That cloak of anonymity allowed her to communicate honestly with people for what she says was the first time in her life. Anon.penet.fi allowed lots of people to be heard. Doubtless, some of them will now revert to silence, waiting for the courts...
Viewers of the Democratic Convention can be forgiven for wondering why there wasn't a changing table on the podium or a little Gymboree just offstage. The poster child of the Democratic Convention in Chicago last week was the child, and families were valued above all else, their virtue synonymous with parenthood. The reason is elementary: the political world revolves around baby boomers and now the baby boomers' world revolves around their children...
...real success of the film, however, is in the splendid details--the stereotype-crushingly vivid characterizations, the brilliant satire of modernism that is Celeste's "art," the poster of Maria Callas that Ana snatches from her wall before dashing off to France, the similarities in the many and varied wedding scenes. Altogether, "Celestial Clockwork" is a film that precisely and elegantly constructs a paradise before our eyes...