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...away most of the hackers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who had written the original program, and their new version -- Mosaic Netscape -- is suddenly the hottest thing on the Net. So why are AT& T, IBM and Digital Equipment licensing a competing version from low-profile Spyglass? Because Spyglass has something Mosaic never bothered to get -- a license from the university. School spokesfolks say they are trying to avoid a lawsuit, but add, "We're obligated to our licensees to protect our intellectual property...
...effort, Andreessen's team faces stiff competition. It comes both from Mosaic look-alikes, like MCC's MacWeb and Spyglass's Enhanced Mosaic, and from a slew of new programs, like Netcom's NetCruiser and James Gleick's Pipeline, that work almost as well as Mosaic but don't require an elaborate Internet connection. If Mosaic has a weakness, it is that most computer users are not prepared to go through the hoops necessary to get it up and running. To address that problem, O'Reilly & Associates, a publisher based in Sebastopol, California, has introduced a product called Internet...
...nonviolent Civil Rights Movement forced White America to make the country a democracy in political fact as well as political myth. Most of them--along with many whose incomes are below the poverty line--are striving to live up to what the writer Albert Murray in his novel, The Spyglass Tree, called the indelible "ancestral imperative to do something and become something and be somebody...
...Amory as Richard Dauntless. While he plays his character with great vivacity, he speaks much too quickly and articulates poorly--many of his lines are impossible to understand. Fortunately, director Arthur Fuscaldo supplements Amory's lines with large, hilarious gestures. For example, he has Richard take out his spyglass and look Rose over intensely in their first meeting. Amory's flourishes somewhat compensate for his garbled lines...
...past 11:30) the twin productions maintain a sharp direction and pace that keeps them from flagging. Time speeds up and slows down often in the space between 8 p.m. and midnight; cynicism becomes hope and then a starry-eyed idealism inviting scorn, reality advances and recedes through a spyglass of jingoist jargon and lovers' quarrels. On the surface, the two shows--a self-styled "political allegory with music" and an original drama about a suicidal writer--could hardly have less in common. But they share a propensity for mind games, whether political or emotional the audience is teased into...