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Once a common sight along Southern highways, chain gangs fell victim to a reform movement that reached its zenith with the 1932 film exposa I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang. By the late 1940s, the gangs were well on their way to joining stocks and public floggings in penological limbo. Thus there was little in the way of models when Alabama Governor Fob James decided last year to revive the practice. "We started from scratch," says Limestone warden Ralph Hooks, pointing proudly to a new, specially designed toilet that allows the men to relieve themselves in privacy while...
...created a new unit in January to build equipment that will bring online networks to home computers via TV cables. Motorola plans to test the system this year in a venture with TCI in suburban Chicago. (Comcast is experimenting with a similar system in Philadelphia, using equipment made by Zenith.) Apple, in conjunction with Texas Instruments, will market a tool it calls FireWire, designed to hook all such devices together so they can be operated from a single ``touchpad,'' or remote-control device...
...still appears, but it seldom makes waves. At its zenith, though, it was home to some of America's brightest talents, from the novelist Mary McCarthy to the poet Delmore Schwartz to the critic Lionel Trilling. In its pages, tiresome Marxist posturing coexisted with the best of literary modernism; the editors, Macdonald perhaps most of all, believed that politics was of no consequence when it came to high art. Thus PR printed short stories by Kafka and poetry and essays by Anglo-Catholic royalist T.S. Eliot...
...many, Danish culture reached its breath-taking zenith in the perfection of a starchy breakfast snack with a tangy fruit-flavored filling. And there's always Carlsberg. While the company's marketing division assesses Carlsberg as "probably the best lager in the World," and danishes are unquestionably the finest starchy breakfast snacks money can buy, having seen the exhibition of Danish painting at the Fogg, I don't plan to throw out my Goyas, Cezannes, and Van Goghs to make room for their Danish contemporaries. If you've never heard of any Danish painters, don't panic. The collection...
...Trained by TV to be literal-minded and by the zeitgeist to be a bit cynical, today's younger generation began driving the traditional musical toward extinction more than two decades ago. The genre's zenith came, not coincidentally, at the last moment of baby boomers' cultural powerlessness, during the 1950s, when a big Hollywood musical appeared every few months. It's incredible, in retrospect, that An American in Paris, Royal Wedding, Show Boat, Singin' in the Rain, April in Paris, Calamity Jane, The Band Wagon, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Kismet, Oklahoma!, Brigadoon, Guys and Dolls, High Society, Funny...