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...months, such was the life of J.C. Herz '93, former CrimeEd, as she immersed herself in the culture and subculture of the Internet to research her debut effort, Surfing The Internet (Little, Brown, & Co). The result of sleep deprivation and stimulant overload is a sassy, hypercharged piece of cyberculture shock which reads like an extended Internet session and takes J.C. to the furthest points of cyberspace and back. Through virtual worlds full of meaningless babble and technological romance, around connection obstacles and cultural consequences, Herz's faster-than-a-speeding-bullet style whizzes through the tangle of the Internet...
...bring him some coffee. "When I bent down to put the cup on the credenza for him, he reached over and ran his hand up my leg." This was no accident, she says. "He traditionally wears a Cheshire-cat grin on his face, and he was grinning then." In shock, she stalked out of the room and did nothing...
...Farmer is a computer programmer with a gold ring in his eyebrow, a curly shock of orange hair and a tendency to tug on the beard of authority. Last Wednesday, on the day that Farmer turned 33, he gave a gift to the computer world: a fiendish little software device called SATAN...
...emotions in these silent scenes, however, is a definite contrast with the generally weak characterizations. Zappia makes Flee as awful as she is intended to be; unfortunately, this robs her of the gravity needed to pull off her more serious lines. What should be the play's biggest emotional shock, Flee's discovery of the photographs, is marred by the seeming banality of her anger...
...surprise announcement boosted Chrysler stock and prompted Chairman Robert Eaton to scrap a scheduled New York auto show speech.TIME Detroit bureau chief William McWhirtersays Chrysler is well positioned to fight a takeover because of its profitability, as well as Eaton's financial acumen. Nevertheless, McWhirter says the announcement sent shock waves through a U.S. industry that has never before been targeted by such a bid. Kerkorian already owns 10 percent of Chrysler. Iacocca, 70, said he does not want to go back into management. As for their plans for the firm, a press release provided by Kerkorian and Iacocca indicated...