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...HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD. The land of celluloid has finally hit the big time, finally created a spectacle that will spawn sequels, and spinoffs and sell popcorn for ever. And the most fitting irony came at the conclusion of the Oscars: the award for best picture of the year went to a movie that tried to enter the world of ordinary people. The shooting of President Reagan was the horrifying result of ordinary people trying to enter the world of the movies...
...called the conservation laws "good" and said he had no reservations about enforcing them. In fact, he said, he is more concerned that the purpose of the laws, and the West's ecology, might be damaged should an energy emergency in the future spawn "crisis-oriented, unreasonable" programs to develop the region's coal, gas and oil resources. Said Watt: "All too often, the Federal Government moves in a crisis, not with the precision of a surgeon's scalpel but with the force of a meat ax. We want the right kind of development to come over...
What particularly bothers students and school officials is that the news of each incident has seemed to spawn others. In an open letter to the college community, Wesleyan President Colin Campbell said he believed the anonymous letter delivered there was one example of "resurgent racism in society at large." Chandler concurs: "Because of the current shift in the national mood, I'm assuming that some rather ugly impulses have been liberated." Says Archie Epps III, dean of undergraduates at Harvard and a black: "In such a climate, an individual who has harbored resentment is more likely to feel free...
...today contained in microelectronic circuits costing less than $20. By packing memory and logic functions of actual computers onto pieces of silicon no bigger than a cornflake, electronics engineers and designers have been able to build computer-like intelligence into conventional office equipment. Silicon-chip technology is beginning to spawn such devices as typewriters that can recognize and identify misspellings, copiers that can memorize, store and retrieve documents, and dictation machines that can translate a spoken message into a typed page...
...page document, with more than 300 articles and eight annexes, definitively covers every conceivable issue dealing with the seas, from the definition of what constitutes an island* to the jurisdiction over fish that live in fresh water but spawn in the ocean. Most remarkable of all is the fact that each question was decided by consensus, thus enhancing prospects that the treaty will win approval when it comes up for ratification...