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Audiences typecast actors. They want to see Bruce Willis and Sylvester Stallone in shirt-off action movies, not button-down comedies. This summer Willis is playing a wreck revived (remember, ahem, The Bonfire of the Vanities?) in Death Becomes Her (July 31), a comedy about Americans' fear of aging. With Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn as dueling harridans, the project suggests little appeal to kids. But director Robert Zemeckis promises broad laughs and dazzling special effects to keep everybody awake and amused...
Voyager's software displays the text on clean white pages that replicate the design of the hardback rather than using the scrolling strings of text so familiar to computer users. A touch of a button turns the page or allows the reader to flip back and forth. Users can dog-ear the corner of a page to mark their place, or attach an electronic paper clip for easy reference. Passages can be underscored or marked on the side, and there are generous margins for putting down notes...
...moral flatness of button-pushing sensation, the truck-driver video accomplished the amazing task of nullifying the Rodney King video. The dumb, blunt message of the Rodney King video was: white cops are monsters beating defenseless blacks. The bottom-feeders' message of the truck-driver video was that blacks are savage, racist animals who would beat a man virtually to death because he is white. On that level of discourse, if Americans choose to stay there, there can only be a gridlock of rage: blacks make demons of whites, whites make demons of blacks...
...past, Black riots have stimulated or hastened long sought-after federal action. In Black Violence, a study of the federal reaction to urban riots, James Button concludes that in response to riots, government enacted national socioeconomic reform policies more quickly than in response to "conventional forms of political participation" in many cities throughout the country...
...Those who argue that collective violence is necessarily beyond the pale of effective political action and is totally counterproductive in terms of achieving any of the goals set forth by the practitioners of violence are, on the basis of this study, in serious error," Button wrote...