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...fire while trying to set up my network connection bedeviled even my computer-literate dormmates. Lines at The Coop houseware store were reminiscent of Russian bread queues; the presence there of excited parents comparing different styles of ironing boards worked wonders on my homesickness. (My parents didn't trek out from California to move...
True, but there are rewarding things on TV, piles of wheat in mountains of chaff. Even the Raspets broke down and bought a TV last year to follow the elections; they keep it warm an hour a week by watching Star Trek videos. Public Broadcasting has taken a beating in recent years from critics and Congress, but it remains the single most important and trustworthy friend for our children, be they watchers of Arthur, Sesame Street or that big doofus Barney. The basic mission at pbs is to get children to learn. The basic mission almost everywhere else...
...times, 1776 forgets it's a musical and devotes an unsung half-hour to the great questions of the day: How can we get idealistic, insufferable John Adams (Brent Spiner of Star Trek: The Next Generation) to shut up? Will Thomas Jefferson (Paul Michael Valley) have sex in time to write his masterpiece? And would Benjamin Franklin (the benign curmudgeon Pat Hingle) please invent air conditioning--right away? It's a tribute to Ellis' pristine staging that the plot moves as smoothly and, yes, suspensefully as it did 28 or 221 years ago. Come as a skeptic, choose favorite Founding...
...would make the trek just to see the guy whose obsession is a jet engine the size of a truck muffler bolted to go-cart wheels; he sits in front of the glowing, screaming toy and zips across the alkali flats. It's nothing like piloting a computer. And there's the elaborate camera obscura some thoughtful person usually sets up, big enough to walk into and see the desert upside down. And this year, if my girls can be talked into it, we'll squish in the mud of nearby hot springs and wander around as dried-mud people...
...Pretend You Don't See Her by Mary Higgins Clark 2. Last Rights by Philip Shelby 3. Underboss by Peter Maas 4. The Partner by John Grisham 5. Star Trek: First Contact by J.M. Dillard...