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Nevertheless, while he enjoys being harsh, he also wanted to be fair. At the same time, he wanted to see a movie--by this time, he needed some real screwball farce. Since Mrs. Dewitt had already taken the family Edsel down to the rotogravure-o-rama to pick up some tin plates, the only option was to send out Dewitt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Discipline | 4/23/1987 | See Source »

...Hare Rama's" went on. A tiny Indian girl...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: SCRUTINY | 2/19/1987 | See Source »

...backround. Viewing the Chernobyl disaster simply as a political embarassment to the Soviet government, rather than as a human tragedy, is repugnant. Whatever one's opinion of the Soviet government, it is incumbent upon us to sympathize with the Russian and Ukrainian peoples in a time of difficulty. Rama Kocherlakota GSAS Gerard Michael GSAS John March-Russell GSAS Noel Harold Kaylor GSAS Kathleen Gallo GSAS

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tasteless | 5/16/1986 | See Source »

Bradbury is only one of several well-known authors who are collaborating with computer software companies in adapting their novels to "interactive fiction," an electronic form of literature that transforms the reader into an active participant in the plot. A version of Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama is available in interactive form on a floppy disk (Telarium; $39.95). Michael Crichton (The Andromeda Strain, The Terminal Man) has actually created a software work from scratch: Amazon (Telarium; $39.95), which transports the player and a sidekick parrot named Paco into the jungles of South America in search of a lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Stepping into the Story | 5/13/1985 | See Source »

...marched solemnly past the gold-spired Grand Palace in Bangkok last week. With them came a single flutist playing Phya Sok (Great Sadness). One year after her death at the age of 79, Thailand's Queen Rambhai Barni took her last earthly journey in dignified splendor. Granddaughter of King Rama IV, the Thai monarch romanticized in The King and I, she was the wife of Thailand's last absolute ruler, before a coup installed a constitutional monarchy in 1932. The Queen's remains were borne on the traditional 40-ton, gilded teakwood chariot to an ornate cremation pavilion. Though some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 22, 1985 | 4/22/1985 | See Source »

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