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Sadly, Glimp spent his last three decades squandering his creative energies in a legal battle with Alfred A. Knopf; the artist demanded more royalties, while Knopf contended that he was not Glimp's publisher. At 86, death came peacefully to this proud virtuoso as he slept at the wheel of his sports car and drove into a tree. But wherever there are tiny, neurotic cultists with fruit and incense, Cranford Glimp's art will live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Unknown CRANFORD GLIMP | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

...paper, he had a horrific childhood. Growing up near Toronto, he dropped out of school in his early teens after his father lost his accounting job and the whole family had to work nights in a wheel factory; for a time they all lived in a Volkswagen van. He describes the van part, at least, as being not all that bad, and discounts the easy conceit that there's an A-to-B line between childhood scars and his comedy, or anyone else's. Then again, he once did a bit in his stand-up routine that went like this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Don't Laugh | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

...have answers. No. No. And to this latest, I'll venture, no again. Microsoft continues to find vast markets to mine, and has closed the gap considerably since falling asleep at the Internet wheel a few years back. How it closed that gap is what has antitrust officials atwitter, seeking to demonopolize the company. Their effort is not to be taken lightly. The Internet, which officials want to keep wide open for competition, is a treasure that merits their watchful eye. And while few are talking about busting up Microsoft--like John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil early this century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buy On Bad News | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

...select few may have actually spun the wheel and clapped along with Vanna; fewer still are those who realize that the value of a letter is actually inversely proportional to its frequency. Your immediate wealth increases when five "S"s appear on the board, but in the long run, those "S"s really won't narrow down the identity of word as much as a single "Q" might...

Author: By Andrea H. Kurtz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Value of a Vowel | 5/15/1998 | See Source »

...User Illusion was obviously not written in the interests of the average "Wheel of Fortune" viewer, but beyond the book’s grand foray into consciousness lies a simple admonition: redundancy hurts, for less is much, much more. Do not say more than necessary; do not toss superfluous words into written communication, and, if you are a game show contestant with any shred of sensibility, never buy the vowels, You will just be wasting your money, and it does not take a world-class physicist or mathematician to realize that what the letter following that "q" must be. Norretranders...

Author: By Andrea H. Kurtz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Value of a Vowel | 5/15/1998 | See Source »

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