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Most students, however, have tamer uses for their computers. Joshua F. Thorpe '88 has an entire baseball league at his fingertips in his computer. "Computer baseball is addictive, but you just have to play because it's baseball," says Thorpe. He adds that he prefers computer baseball to field baseball because "It's faster and allows you to make decisions...
...many times, only to be shattered again, that few dared hope that the latest cease-fire would be anything more than a brief respite. "If you had told us ten years ago that we could expect a decade of war, we would have thrown up our hands," says Jana Tamer, publisher of a Middle East newsletter. "Tell us now that it will go on for another ten years, and I guess we would just shrug. We are numb...
...ambitions. Chita Rivera (Anna) is about as small-time as Radio City Music Hall. Packing 30 years of Broadway savvy into the frame of a vivacious teenager, the 51-year-old entertainer could by now sell a song to the deaf; she commands the audience like a lion tamer with a whip snap in her walk; and, by the forces of magnetism and sheer will, she eats co-stars for breakfast. Thus it is partly noblesse oblige and partly the instinct for survival that keeps Liza Minnelli (Angel), the bigger box-office attraction, out of Chita's way. Minnelli...
...become more than a peripheral strangeness, to be shut out with ease or with difficulty, according to temperament. For the skaters, ice is ice, if it is cooled to the right temperature and the East European judges are not too hostile. For the skiers, the runs are slightly tamer than World Cup racecourses usually are, but this is true for any Olympics; you cannot have the inexperienced skiers who show up to race every four years (Turks, Greeks and Chinese are entered) kill themselves on downhill runs like the frightening Hahnenkamm at Kitzbiihel. Winds are notoriously bad here, and after...
...budget: Dean Tavoularis' dazzling sets cost more than $6 million to build. The film went $11 million over the original budget, shooting was suspended as Coppola wooed other investors-and in August, Paramount showed a very rough cut to a group of disappointed exhibitors. Coppola the lion tamer felt caged; it was time to crack the whip and see who jumped...