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...their size, is shrinking. Sony, master of the mini, recently introduced a 3-lb. briefcase-size keyboard unit capable of storing text to be printed out later. A few stubborn novelists and historians may resist until the final pencil stub and the last typewriter ribbon, but in the final chapter, the processor will win. As Cerf concludes, "I have seen the future, and it glows." -By J.D. Reed. Reported...
Gardner saves his liveliest derision for gullible scientists and science writers -particularly those who lauded Israeli Magician Uri Geller and his "unearthly ability" to bend spoons with the power of his mind. In a dazzling chapter, Gardner, an amateur prestidigitator, demonstrates a dozen methods for deceiving the credulous, including sleight of hand, palmed magnets and misdirection. Yet even these instructions are offered more in fun than in malice. For early on, the skeptic's skeptic acknowledges that the most obvious evidence of fraud will not budge the True Believer. Instead, Gardner writes for those who agree with the 1920s...
Unfortunately the American labor movement will not organize the rest of the workforce overnight and combine into one giant American chapter of Solidarity (a worthwhile goal, however). But there is much it can do, and no better time than the present to do it, when the nation's attention is focused on the controllers. Every other major union in the country--especially the AFL-CIO, which represents so many public sector employees--should back PATCO, and with more than words. If need be, a general walkout should be called, beginning with the unions nearest in occupation to the controllers...
...Brooks pushed the denim saga one more chapter, he might have come up with Thorstein Veblen jeans, preferably worn with a vicuna sweatshirt at a Rodeo Drive block party to benefit striking grape pickers. Such scenes belong to theatrical rather than routine life, though today the distinction is often blurred. Star-struck by the endless celebrity parade, a growing number of ordinary people stage self-dramatizations in public places. But are the pseudo John Travolta, roller-discoing among the pedestrians, and the orthodontist attending the U.S. Open dressed like Bjorn Borg intentionally ironic or deadly serious...
...Noble House is literally the summer's big book, an alternative challenge for those who keep vowing to read War and Peace. Tolstoy, after all, spent his words on some 15 years of European history; Clavell covers a mere ten days in bygone Hong Kong. Sample chapter heading...