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...operatic background music. But it is often cumbersome. (Sample: "From that day onward, they set about plotting to do away with him. On his part, Jesus refrained from coming and going freely among the people.") When Jesus preaches, the audience hears an inert medley of greatest hits -- aphorisms strung together without logic or sequence...
...this one on the shelf with The Natural. But leave room for poet Donald Hall, who has written a book-length poem, called The Museum of Clear Ideas, strung on the nine-inning frame of a baseball game. Nine syllable lines, nine lines to a half inning, and so on. Extra innings as the poet reaches the end and finds himself still breathing easily despite intimations of mortality...
More troubling, from a philosophic standpoint, is the theme of DYSTOPIA that runs like a bad trip through the cyberpunk world view. Gibson's fictional world is filled with glassy-eyed girls strung out on their Walkman-like SIMSTIM DECKS and young men who get their kicks from MICROSOFTS plugged into sockets behind their ears. His brooding, dehumanized vision conveys a strong sense that technology is changing civilization and the course of history in frightening ways. But many of his readers don't seem to care. "History is a funny thing for cyberpunks," says Christopher Meyer, a music-synthesizer designer...
Before the first full month of fall semesterhas gone by, they fill the Yard with variations onthe First-Year Uniform: hooded Harvard sweatshirton top of a Crew 96 t-shirt; unlaced, oversizedAir Jordans; room card keys strung around theneck. Alternatively, they wear Athletic wear fromU. Homestate. Freshly chopped coiffes...
...1990s incarnation of the flower child, theoutdoorsy crunchy crunch dons a forest green orHeath-bar brown Patagonia jacket. Tevas withwoolen socks, trade beads strung on leather neckwear. FOP T-shirts from the mid 80s on top of greylongjohns or thermal underwear. Alternativefootwear: Birkenstocks worn down to peach fuzz...