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...might defend the pundits by granting that when they talk about "history," they aren't talking about 3,000 years from now--they're talking about 30. If the Nixon scandal fits these pundits' conception of "history," well, sure. Problem is, most of the people who watched that scandal unfold are still alive. We can't be honest about allowing "history to pass judgment" when the people passing judgment are the same people who saw the whole thing happen--and maybe even commented on it at the time. If we really want to see what history...
...television." The network requires that a TV veteran work on shows being produced by novices from the movies. For Felicity, Ed Redlich was hired away from The Practice, and whether it's a question of the amount of film to shoot or the pace at which the plots should unfold, his advice is heeded...
...atmosphere surrounding Saturday's men's soccer contest was nothing short of excitement, but no one was prepared for the drama that would unfold on that warm, sunny afternoon at Ohiri Field...
Remember Horton the elephant? One day he stumbles upon Mayzie, a bird who has no interest in hatching her egg. After coaxing Horton to mount a tree and sit upon her nest, she vanishes. As events unfold in Dr. Seuss's whimsical Horton Hatches the Egg, Horton sits resolutely, unbudged by jeers, inclement weather or nasty humans, who cart him off, tree and all, to be a sideshow in a circus. When Mayzie happens by Horton's tent and sees that most of the work is done, she demands her egg back. Just then, the egg cracks open...
...There is no popular need right now for multimedia. That's obvious," sighs Michael Joyce, the father of hypertext fiction--nonlinear storytelling in which plot lines unfold in different ways upon subsequent readings. Joyce, an associate professor of English at Vassar College, wrote the "classic" hypertext novel, afternoon, a story. The piece is told one screenful of text at a time; by clicking on adjectives and verbs, readers veer off in far-flung narrative directions. While this may sound like the same experience as following hypertext links around the World Wide Web, afternoon was written in 1987 and distributed...