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TITLE: ROGET'S INTERNATIONAL THESAURUS...
...worst, Pacino has let himself degenerate into the mere sum of his quirks -- short stature emphasized by a rolling, shambling gait, gargling intonations, facial tics, a veritable thesaurus of hand gestures. At his best, as he is in a daring pair of roles now on Broadway, he recaptures with easy artlessness the range and power of his debut. One night he is a lisping, languorous biblical potentate, concealing deadly willfullness within a Bette Davis-like camp distraction, as King Herod in Oscar Wilde's Salome. The next night, in the new Chinese Coffee by the relatively unknown Ira Lewis, Pacino...
Computer enthusiasts have long predicted that the digital revolution would soon liberate the word from the printed page and put it directly on the screen. In the past decade, hundreds of reference books -- including such well-known titles as Bartlett's Familiar Quotations and Roget's Thesaurus -- have appeared in electronic form. But when it comes to literature, the electronic-publishing movement has run into resistance from both readers and publishers. As inevitable as the paperless book may seem, neither group could quite imagine sitting down to read Faulkner, Fielding or Flaubert on a computer...
...BIBLE is not a thesaurus for moral living," the Rev. Peter J. Gomes told the Harvard Gazette last week...
...Bible is not a thesaurus for moral living," he added. "It is one of a means by which faithful Christians try to carve out in a rough-and-ready world a way to make their lives better and more responsible...