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...enusing struggle is made infinitely more vivid by some neat anthropomorphism. The Disney creators of talking mice, ducks and crickets again break new ground by devising human-like computer programs, creatures who carry their intelligence--programming orders--on frisbees attached to their backs. They live in the computer system, itself conceptualized as an incredibly complicated maze of tunnels, valley and towers...
...Europe and the Arab world would prevent Israel from launching its final attack. Fearful that the truce would keep them from achieving a total victory over their enemies, the Israelis increased the pressure on the P.L.O. Jets screamed over West Beirut at night to drop flares and smoke canisters, vivid reminders of the destruction that could rain from the skies. Addressing his remarks to the civilian population of Beirut, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin declared on the floor of the Knesset: "Leave, leave, save yourselves! We don't want to harm any of you. By foot...
...lasting fame as the rescuer of the Peking Man. The Blue-Eyed Shan completes a trilogy of novels set in the Orient that the author began with The Chinese Bandit (1975) and The Last Mandarin (1979). The new book stands on its own but also adds considerably to the vivid pageant of the East that Becker has been creating. Read together, all three tales would more than compensate for the rainiest week at the beach...
...problem becomes more vivid on a personal level. "I sometimes get disgusted," says one man who asked not to be identified by name, waiting in line in the Cambridge unemployment office. "You know, when you don't have enough money to buy things for your kids--it's rough." A plasterer, the man has been out of work since September...
Baseball has never been so vivid as it was in Little League. The tension of watching a tight World Series doesn't come close to catching for Krolick's Department Store with the wild kid who thinks he knows how to throw a curve on the mound. The exhilaration of hitting an infield single and scoring on a three base throwing error far exceeds that of hitting a clean homer in a beery softball game...