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...right now, as usual, his eyes are on the future. "All of this, right back through there," he says, his hand traversing the horizon from the CNN Center-dominated southwest skyline up north past the big red Nike swoosh and into the northwest wasteland, that crumbling welter of faded-brick buildings and crack-vial sidewalks whose putative renewal could turn out to be these Games' most enduring local legacy. "This," the prophet says with unfathomable certitude, "is where it's all going to grow...
...named Bowser, is, as always, almost irrelevant. What matters is that the Silicon Graphics chip-fueled Nintendo 64 puts the fastest, smoothest game action yet attainable via joystick at the service of equally virtuoso motion. Mario runs, flies, swims, dodges and flips his way past a bewildering welter of walls, ramps, pools and abysses...
...America, where the institution of having servants has never been as common as in France, the social criticism which drives the play has much less force. In the production that closed last weekend at the Adams Pool Theater, produced by Extension School drama students Les Welter and Barbara Matteau, the sisters' madness seemed disturbing, but the audience's immediate connection to it--the sense that this violence could exist inside one's own home, beneath the surface of bourgeois contentment--was lacking; people who have never had a servant can't really shudder when a maid cries...
Jury expert Abramson also believes that asking jurors to sit silently throughout a trial and not talk about a case is onerous and unreasonable. At the very least, he contends, jurors facing a welter of technicalities thrown at them without a clearly understood context should be allowed to ask questions screened by the judge. But Abramson would go further: "I favor allowing jurors to start talking [among themselves] about the one thing that's overwhelming their lives...
...suffered mightily. The sometimes unfriendly, not to say surly treatment of guests from more than 180 countries so dominated foreign news dispatches that conference leaders despaired of communicating their serious business: relieving the plight of women worldwide who suffer worse things than searches and bad plumbing. Into this welter of conflicting concerns stepped one visitor who seemed to bring it all together--to issue a ringing call against abuse and discrimination in their universal forms as well as their particular manifestations at the conference...