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...better. Demand is strong for almost any sort of electronic gadget, from programmable calculators to video games. Sales of computer-based "smart toys" like Simon, which uses increasingly complex patterns of flashing colors and sounds as a space-age update of the old Simon Says schoolyard game, are especially robust...
Generational hubris has always been especially robust in the children of the postwar baby boom; their sheer numbers gave many of them a swelling sense of their own inevitability, their unique moral Tightness. Everything they did was done in the incandescent certainty, the grand optical illusion, that it had never, ever been tried or felt before. No doubt as the baby boomers pass on through life, their millennial pretensions will do for middle age and old age what they did for youth in the '60s: in 35 years will come geriatric chic, revolution in the nursing homes. But just...
...marked improvement over the stop-and-go economic policies of Jimmy Carter, which thwarted anti-inflation efforts and severely complicated corporate planning. Still, honeymoons have a way of ending abruptly. The burden will be on the new Republican in the White House to prove that he can deliver a robust economy...
...they were last season; new faces animate the female roles--Cynthia Darlow as Hermia and Cherry Jones as Helena. Darlow's Hermia thrusts her lower lip out at life with a little-girl pout that is sometimes winning and a whine that's sometimes shrill; Jones is more the robust than the morose Helena, bludgeoning Demetrius with her lust. The four lovers interact with a vigor that sometimes shakes the planks of the set, providing an object lesson in how these roles can both stand out individually and click with their counterparts...
...becomes construction noise and restless people passing through. Alaska has not made any sense of itself yet, and neither has McGinnis. There is too little attempt to understand what he has recorded. Nevertheless, he presents the real scene, the graceless complete one. It has the robust glow and toughness of the Alaska that is one huge ragged edge of America...