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...months ago. Prices range from $1,490 to $2,090. Many consumers consider the Macintosh, which is based on a new generation of technology, more versatile and easier to use than any other personal computer. But Apple now faces a challenge from Atari, which made the only big splash at last week's Comdex show. Dealers gathered around for a peek at a new Atari machine that is similar to the Macintosh but will cost only $800 to $900. Though its official name is the ST, the computer has already been nicknamed the Jackintosh, after Atari Chief Executive Jack Tramiel...
...idle during his long layoff. He wrote The Lonely Guy's Book of Life, which not only advised single fellas how to cope but became a motion picture vehicle for Steve Martin. He did the screenplay for Stir Crazy and pitched in on the scenarios of Doctor Detroit and Splash. So it should come as no surprise to anyone that Bruce hasn't lost a step in the dialogue department. And the way he spins yarns is enough to make even nonreaders feel right at home. In fact, if the truth be told, after a couple of pages of "guys...
...course, the Soviets don't splash their head Reds all overComrademagazine, especially when the ostensible leader is desperately trying to create himself a cult of personality. Gorbachev, though more visible than most saw the public stare in the West only in recent trips to Canada and Britain; he is but tangentially connected to the events of the last three decades...
...young American writer named Jacob Epstein confessed that he had not sufficiently "originalized" whole passages from Amis' first novel, The Rachel Papers, before incorporating them into his own fictional debut, Wild Oats. Now the son of British Novelist Kingsley Amis (Lucky Jim, One Fat Englishman) is back with a splash. Money: A Suicide Note is one of those infrequent novels that should divide readers into admirers and detractors, with little room for neutrality. The book even comes with a bit of extraliterary irony. While his father's novel Stanley and the Women has been shunned by U.S. publishers for being...
...culture in the oldest state west of the Appalachians. Mercedes sedans park next to beat-up Chevy trucks; private helicopters swoop down on quiet farmland; expensive restaurants spring up next to Billy's Bar; and Joe Bob the trainer, a plug of Red Man in his cheek and a splash of mud on his boots, rubs elbows with Texas wildcatters and Arabian princes...