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...computer screen. For example, when Fahrenheit 451 is loaded into the computer, the following words appear on the screen: "You are in a clearing in dense woods in the southeast corner of Central Park. A pond is to the west. A narrow path leads north along the shore of the pond and to the north you can hear occasional low growls. Near you is a pile of dead leaves." If the player should then type, "Examine the leaves," the program responds, "Under the leaves you see an old rusted grating set into a patch of broken concrete." And the adventure...
...California Business Bank, any number of software manufacturers in Silicon Valley, the University of Santa Clara business school, a group of Navy missile engineers and the National Conference of State Legislatures, all of which have paid hundreds of dollars to hear him out. Though Kushner has had to shore up his income by writing for legal newspapers, his oddball calling just now appears to have reached the brink of earning him a living...
...childhood, on every boulevard and each street square." The memory sends Alexander into a lyrical flight: "Wonderfully smelling, thin, fresh waffles, which were twisted, still hot, into cornets and crammed with cream--the very image of waves, heaving hump-backed and white-crested as they reach the shore, to topple, curl and close like the wave of Hokusai...
Arafat's apparent desire to strike a deal with Hussein and shore up his standing with Arab moderates may have stemmed from the decision of several hard-line, Syrian-backed factions of the P.L.O. to boycott the last session of the Palestine National Council, its de facto parliament in exile. At the same time, Syria's drive to become the region's dominant Arab state may have led to a hardening of the will among moderates to reach a new consensus. In any case, the principal question still to be answered from the Hussein-Arafat agreement is how forthrightly...
...guys require additional work, partly because most readers cannot readily identify with gutter smarts but mostly because embellishing evil is fun. Teddy Magyk, the creep who stalks Mora from the Caribbean to the Jersey shore, lives with his mother in Margate, in a house done up in a parrot motif. One of his specialties is robbing and raping elderly women. He is between jail sentences and is bent on killing his arresting officer. Who is, of course, Lieut. Mora...