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Most disappointed of all are the former dissidents who led the 1989 * rebellion against Erich Honecker's regime but who found themselves left out of post-unification politics. New Forum, the umbrella organization that served as a catalyst of protest, failed to transform itself into a political party; many of its former leaders now regret that. "It's not so much that the west made mistakes or failed to do anything," says Jens Reich, 52, a molecular biologist who was one of New Forum's most eloquent spokesmen. "We were the ones who did nothing. We failed to defend...
...moment never comes. T2 dithers off to transform Schwarzenegger into a mixture of E.T. and Shane. As for Hamilton, who in The Terminator had been a precursor for all the tough-as-kryptonite women in Cameron's later films, she degenerates into a radical ranter, like Patty Hearst in her S.L.A. phase. Is this worth $100 million? Who cares? Ask instead: Is it worthy of our expectations for this Sequel of Sequels? The answer is: not quite. Terminator 2 had to be more than just the summer's best action movie...
...gives rise, for example, to the conception of the U.S. as a nation composed not of individuals making their own choices but of inviolable ethnic and racial groups. It rejects the historic American goals of assimilation and integration. And, in an excess of zeal, well-intentioned people seek to transform our system of education from a means of creating "one people" into a means of promoting, celebrating and perpetuating separate ethnic origins and identities. The balance is shifting from unum to pluribus...
...lost his job as projects director of the Sigmund Freud Archives in New York City. Published the next year by Knopf as In the Freud Archives, Malcolm's report apparently allowed Masson to destroy himself with his own words: his self-description as "an intellectual gigolo," his plan to transform Anna Freud's house, after her death, into "a place of sex, women, fun," and his boast that he would be recognized as "after Freud, the greatest analyst who's ever lived...
...give it a funky new spin. That technique took a quantum leap when the first electronic samplers were introduced around 1980. Unlike synthesizers, which generate tones artificially, samplers record real sounds. Anything audible is eligible: prerecorded music, drumbeats, human voices, even ordinary noise like a slamming door. Samplers transform these sounds into digital codes, which in turn can be manipulated to produce melodies, rhythm tracks and complicated webs of sounds...