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...that computers would change the way we live, work and play. Cosmopolitan magazine's new Virtual Makeover CD-ROM ($39.99) may be geared to women looking for a quick, noncommittal way to experiment with their hair and makeup, but it's being sold by Sega Soft as a coed toy. And once America's protogeek sees what a good stylist can do to spruce up his look (those bangs! that pallor!), we're sure it will find a home on his hard drive...
...greatest thing is that Wallace just continues to play along, not once flinching in the face of the torturous butchers, real bullets coming from his toy gun and plastique-engorged matrioshki. What would have broken up the frenetic timing of the film would have been a classic Bill Murray shriek, but instead we only see the unrelenting self-assurance which seemed to have disappeared after Ghostbusters. It's heartening that the same old funny is still there, while other "Saturday Night Live" grads in Murray's matriculating class continue to turn out mediocre family films for Disney...
...authorship. The ICA show includes several black, rubber and Beracryl castings of mundane objects like a candle or a doggy dish. Although these hand-made "readymades" may be overly indebted to Jasper John's light bulb or flashlight castings of the early 1960s, other pieces in the exhibition toy more originally with the idea of banal objects posing as high...
...While Wall Street paraded record profits, in Hong Kong the sky was falling. Efforts to prop up the currency rocked the Hang Seng index, and the effect was more catastrophic than any galactic collision. By Friday, the Dow was as bitten as a Marv Albert chew-toy. Looks like George Soros has a lot more to answer...
...Meanwhile, it seems Albert has another victim on his hands. Outside the courtroom, surprise witness (and peeved chew-toy) Patricia Masten said, "Personally, I'm very upset that he's not doing any jail time...