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...from home computers, video games and video cameras. Laboring at night in his cluttered home workshop, Stevenson designed circuitry that brought standard television sets up to monitor quality. Last May the new monitor went on sale. Robinson says it has been "very successful," and Stevenson's career has been reborn, along with GE's consumer electronics operation. Says Stevenson: "I like the atmosphere of taking risks, trying things...
...narcissism on a national scale. At times the rhetoric of "feeling good about America" bordered on the autoerotic. But the new atmosphere was alive with a great energy. The land was acrawl with entrepreneurs and Emersonian yuppies sounding the official cheer of 1984: "Go for it!" The belief was reborn that Americans can do--well, anything...
What is immediately striking and highly effective is the set, simple in appearance but truly complex. Jennings and designer Albert Webster deserve plaudits for the sheer cleverness of the entire three-level set rising from under a bare white cover, suggesting a reborn Phoenix rising from the embers of the protagonist's imagination. Less successful, however, are the rather eerie and harsh sounding original score and the flashing colored lights in the background, tending to be more an annoying distraction than a subtle evocation of mood...
...scheduled visit to West Germany Sept. 26-29, the Soviets stepped up their efforts last week to sow discontent between the two countries. Soviet commentators did little to else but denounce West German "revanchism," the desire to restore pre-World War II boundaries, describing the country as virtually a reborn Third Reich that is preparing to launch another blitzkrieg against the Soviet Union. Despite an improving relationship between East and West Germany this year, Honecker may decide not to brave such Soviet opposition. Indeed, when officials in Bonn and East Berlin conferred to settle details of the trip, the East...
...motherhood? But Nelson has many staunch defenders, who have pointed out that the young Moses committed murder and that St. Paul approved the killing of Christians before his conversion. "Surely Christ is still Redeemer," argued another letter writer. "Can we not believe that Mr. Nelson may be truly reborn...