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After all, he seems to have truly succeeded in getting in touch with the working class, a remarkable feat considering his life-long existence as a member of the elite upper crust of Washington D.C. Of course, there were little mistakes along the way, like driving a Mercedes while preaching "America First" during the '92 campaign, but that's all behind...
...Chicago rely on the IBM 9020E, a mainframe computer of 1960s vintage. Unlike modern computers, with their tidy array of microchips, this dinosaur is stuffed with thousands and thousands of feet of wire. "The technicians tell us the wires are so brittle they sometimes break when you just touch them," says Mark Scholl, president of the Chicago Center controllers' union. Wanda Geist, who heads the technicians' union at Chicago Center, says, "This computer has been running 24 hours a day, seven days a week for 25 years. Things just wear...
Shocking? No. More a measure of the movie's originality. For, age difference aside, Hutton and Portman are perfectly matched ironists--''Romeo and Juliet, the dyslexic version," as she calls them--dealing with the largest irony of all, the fact that they dare not touch, let alone dream of fulfillment together. Their rue and wryness are characteristic of Scott Rosenberg's writerly script, the playing of their encounters typical of a fine acting ensemble and of Ted Demme's discreet yet forceful direction. Beautiful Girls is always in touch with reality but never drowned...
...that cyberromances, whether licit or not, generate genuine feelings. "This is not the same as reading Playboy," says psychologist Sherry Turkle of M.I.T, author of Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet (Simon & Schuster; $25). "There really is another person there, and that person can touch you and move you in various ways, emotionally and sexually...
...connections he has to senior faculty allow the FDO [Freshman Dean's Office] to bring freshmen in touch with all those people," Nathans said...