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...Robin Williams was next in line with three awards. In addition to Midler, lifetime awards went to Lucille Ball, Woody Allen, Carol Burnett, Lily Tomlin, Mary Tyler Moore, Mel Brooks, Steve Allen and All in the Family Producer Norman Lear. "Anytime they want to include me in the same breath with Lucille Ball is fine by me," said the Divine Miss M. "I've never had quite a year like this before -- every dream I ever had came true...
...sales will gain momentum when the world's No. 1 computer maker begins summer shipments of four new models using the Intel chip. Once the machines get their full complement of software sometime next year, they are likely to set new performance standards. But customers no longer hold their breath for the latest gear with IBM's distinctive blue markings. Even though buyers knew for much of 1986 that IBM was readying the new line, "they needed new machines and were not going to wait around forever," says Bill Lempesis, a Dataquest analyst. While some settled for deeply discounted older...
...didn't want to find myself left behind or outdated or out of breath--or breadth. I didn't want to become a relic of the past. Now I don't have computer phobia. I even take science courses. And I passed the computer part of the QRR on my first try; it's now a part of my past...
...lack of analysis undermines Rushdie's credibility from the very first chapter. How can one believe the Sandinistas' statement that the contras pose no real threat while in the same breath they point to devestating damage inflicted by the US-backed rebels? Rushdie is trapped by contradictions that he never even sees. In a country of boy soldiers who are "already so familiar with death that they have lost respect for it," in a country that has lost the equivalent of an entire year's production to war the causes of conflict beg to be addressed...
...Someone could always be watching." This obsession with surfaces is contagious: First Novelist Simpson also suffers from it. She uses brand names and meticulous descriptions of the ordinary to build an appearance of reality, but beneath the book's carefully crafted details there is not quite enough of the breath or pulse of life...