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Suddenly IBM is faltering as a standard setter, and the copycats are breaking away. Last week officers of nine leading computer companies -- among them Tandy, Compaq and Hewlett-Packard -- gathered in a Times Square hotel ballroom to declare their independence. The computer makers, who collectively sold 50% more personal machines...
In some fundamental ways skywalks are more perniciously anti-urban than the shopping malls they are intended to compete against. Good malls, like city streets, encourage lingering, serendipity; skywalks, however, are pedestrian freeways, streets distilled to the strictly utilitarian function of providing transit from Point X to Point Y, no...
Many of Shakespeare's plays, including Cymbeline, present history almost as fractured fairy tales. Does it matter? No, emphatically not, would be the response of the dottily romanticizing tour guide Lettice, played by Maggie Smith in Lettice and Lovage, Shaffer's rambling but zesty comedy. The first act takes place...
This formalist geography lesson could not last, of course. In the '80s it came apart like wet Kleenex. America has no single culture, but cultures. And so it should, since diversity is better than monotony. In any case, many ethnic Americans are still exiles within the dominant, white matrix. One...
Ever ready to borrow the best from other cultures, America is celebrating the spirited sounds and shapes, the flavors and flirtations of Hispanic style. The new influence is changing the way the country eats, dresses, dances, plays, ) learns -- the way it lives. Look around. See the special lightning, the distinctive...