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Within an hour, the feverishly well-organized program is fully under way. With variety-special slickness, the teachers spin through the 1985 camp dance and camp song (available for $3 at the Spirit Shop). They stage morality playlets on the blessings of unity, screen movies on how to watch football games. They even offer tips on how to "bring out the spirit in people who never...
...chic urban precincts of loft dwellers, San Pellegrino sippers and would-be Rimbauds. Black is now the color of choice for photographic and high-priced electronic equipment of every kind. Sony's new, "ultimate" Trinitron TV, called the XBR, is advertised as a black cube with a nearly black screen sitting on a black pedestal. Miniskirts and sofas in black leather are pandemic. Wristwatches are black, good china is black. Even telephones are once again fashionably black. Sterling cigarettes, a new brand, come in hard black packets...
...liked. Said a top producer: "If he starts to let his personal convictions affect what pictures get made or what themes they have, he will drive the company into the ground." Maybe so, but it was not Turner who said, "Public morality is a very important factor on the screen. I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom." That was Samuel Goldwyn, and his philosophy helped produce MGM's golden era. --By Janice Castro. Reported by Denise Worrell/Los Angeles, with other bureaus...
Efforts to contain the social cost of AIDS are increasingly widespread. Earlier this month the Defense Department announced it will screen all 2.1 million active-duty military personnel for exposure to the AIDS virus. Last week Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance Co. began requiring AIDS tests for large-policy applicants in five "high-risk" states: California, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey and Texas, as well as in Washington, D.C. The company explained that $2.5 million of its life-insurance claims this year have involved AIDS victims...
...individual computer user, Technical Engineer Dick Streeter, 55, last June called in to a computer bulletin board based on Long Island, N.Y., hoping to upgrade the graphics capabilities of his IBM PC with a free program called EGA-BTR. After he transferred the software into his machine, Streeter's screen went blank. Soon after, a message flashed: "Arf, arf! Got you!" This so-called Trojan-horse program had erased nearly 900 accounting, word processing and game files that Streeter had stored in his machine. Said the dismayed engineer: "Had I logged on to the bulletin board while at work...