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...carry their traffic-are turning out to be terminally insecure. One of the things Mitnick is believed to have stolen from Shimomura's computer is a set of utility programs-the electronic equivalent of a locksmith's toolbox-that would make, in the hands of a determined hacker, a potent set of burglar's tools. Given the speed with which such programs can be duplicated and transmitted, it must now be assumed that they have been distributed widely throughout the computer underground...
Junior setter Pete Buletza teamed with freshmen outside-hitter Ryan Oliver to form a potent combination. Buletza, reminiscent of a fiery King David with glaring red locks and scowl to match, combined timely spikes with precision setting...
Cockroaches and Jews? The connection Bedarski makes in displaying an edited version of Bayer's promotional tape as art (Cockroaches, 1993-94) is creepily potent. Her monitors are set up on the lowest level of the ICA, in a corner draped in black, appropriately damp and smelling faintly of sewage. Cockroaches accomplishes a disturbing transference of emotion. Already slightly queasy at the sight of six inch cockroaches, the viewer is easily horrified by the appearance of Germans in gas masks speaking calmly and matter-of-factly about efficient modes of extermination. Bedarski's parallel is clever, subversive and electric...
...Potent psychoactive drugs have enabled people once paralyzed by schizophrenia and depression to lead productive lives. Even so, pills have not vanquished mental anguish. While the rate of suicide is falling in the population as a whole, it is rising alarmingly among people ages 15 to 24 and among those over...
...Nobody's Fool" is successful because it is potent without relying on typical film conventions. There are no guns. Well, okay, two to be exact. There are no naked women. Okay, maybe for a split second. But, the point is that no one's life is on the line. Compared to many films where the world is sure to end, the stakes in "Nobody's Fool" are small. The worst that could happen is for Sully to go on relinquishing responsibility. What is the best that could happen? Probably that Sully starts to value the things he's taken...