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...late 1970s to save money by criminating hot breakfasts in the Houses is perhaps the most memorable example. But what House Masters and others who recall his successes mention foremost is Fox's establishment of the current form of the House system, quite a contrast to the dissociated setup of three-and four-year Houses and a mixed-class Yard left over from before the Harvard-Radcliffe merger...
...used to play back the cassette. The chief advantage of the VHS camcorder, sold by Zenith and JVC, is that it comes equipped with an electronic view finder that is actually a tiny (one-inch-square) black-and-white TV mounted on the side of the camera. This setup allows the user to instantly review what has just been taped. It also has a fade control, so that amateur directors can end shots artistically by fading to black...
...June evening last year when a high school student in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, dialed a seven-digit number and logged onto the GTE Telenet Communications Network. The teenager began roaming through the New York area of the national system that ties more than 1200 computers together into a setup open to about 150,000 paying customers. Accessing systems almost at random, the student gave the name set of standard answers to demands for password identification from the large computers on the network--hello, test, sysop--ht might type, as his screens filled with logos from systems thousands of miles away. Finally...
...arrival of this lubricious pair just now is a coincidence, not the harbinger of a trend. In the main, Hollywood pictures since the mid-'70s have been sexually arid. Even the horny teen romps use the erotic impulse only as the setup for an anatomical punch line. Among the box-office hits of 1984, only the Clint Eastwood melodrama Tightrope had much to say about the dark night of the libido, and much of that was muffled under the bang-bang of a climactic chase. For that matter, De Palma and Russell are eccentric outsiders, and so are their...
...people who live in them are older than the cliched older than the hills. The place has become a retirement community. The house, now employed as guest quarters for the residents' progeny-those who care to call-occupies the middle ground. It is a serene setup. What is more, the care is so fine that the death rate is remarkably low-so low the administrators reckon that today's applicant for admission will have to wait eight to ten years (by which time the point may have been lost...