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...contact Rick Borovoy through that Reliable model T of cyberspace, the telephone. "Your name sounds familiar," he says. Briefly, I sketch out the highway map of my life: Pennsylvania childhood, high school in Connecticut, college in Iowa, assorted rites of passage in New Mexico. "That must be it," he interrupts. Borovoy used to work with the Navajos there; I'd done some work with the northern Pueblos. "At least we found something," he says, satisfied that our lives may in fact have intersected at some point...
Pilot users can jot notes and addresses into the machine with a tiny penlike stylus that traces letters onto the touch-sensitive screen, like an Etch-A-Sketch. To help Pilot turn those squiggles into English (the Achilles' heel of the Newton, which was likely to translate GET LUNCH into EAT COUCH), users must write in Graffiti, a simplified written language that replaces each letter with a geometric pattern; an A looks like an upside down V, for instance. It took us 10 minutes to learn, and after a week we were up to about 80% of our normal writing...
...then, of course, are the magazine's swipes at the egos of students. The sketch begins with the statement that Harvard students "want you to know they're the best. That four-letter word crops up a lot in their conversation..." It also includes the familiar joke about the number of Harvard students it takes to change a light bulb (Answer: One, who holds the bulb while the world revolves around...
...that no cameras will be allowed in his courtroom when the O.J. Simpson wrongful-death lawsuit commences this week. Not only that, but the attorneys in this civil case--unlike their loose-lipped counterparts who starred in the criminal proceedings--have been muzzled by a strict gag order. Courtroom sketch artists will be permitted to ply their trade, sort of: they may not draw during the proceedings and so must produce their sketches from memory after leaving court each day. And Fujisaki, who has a reputation for take-no-prisoners briskness, will not read any motions from the attorneys that...
...Happy Gilmore, were crude and slouchy, but they returned enough money on modest investments to turn Sandler into the next worst thing to a movie star. Now he raises the stakes, playing in director Ernest Dickerson's industrial-strength action comedy Bulletproof with Damon Wayans, graduate of another TV sketch show, In Living Color, and a person of actual charm and talent...