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Alas, computer simulations are never like the real game. Any hacker who writes a baseball program that would allow any team--two runs back in the bottom of the ninth inning with two outs and two strikes against the batter--to go on to victory would be called an idiot. Probability and statistics said the Mets were losers...
...emerged at the age of 77 in a reflective mood prompted by a nearfatal automobile accident in Switzerland, where he now lives. "Only an idiot believes that he can write the truth about himself," he begins, and then demonstrates that idiocy becomes him. Unlike Greene's God-haunted memoirs, Ambler's have few ominous moments and only one bitter note. The ironic revelation is his specialty: "Uncle Frank . . . had confidence in himself and had acquired important skills. We knew that because just a week ago he had been giving evidence . . . as a witness for the Prosecution. His expert field...
...enough, with just enough twists to prevent you from leaving in the middle. But, since its characters are so dimensionless, new ones have to be introduced at each step of the plot's development: the police chief who has sex with a whore in his car; the bumbling blonde idiot who is Stone's mistress' lover and lives in a mobile home with a lava lamp; and the most ridiculous of all, a crazed bedroom killer who appears on the scene at the last minute and saves everybody...
Some believe that Americans have entirely too much freedom: all engine, no brakes, the great vehicle careering all over the road, the Lowest Common Denominator at the wheel, grinning like an idiot, hurling beer cans out the window. In many minds, freedom is a license to indulge. If the old constraints of religion and manners have given way, Americans unequipped with a set of inhibitions will begin to dismantle the system for their own amusement. But one rarely hears a revolutionary cry these days to overthrow the Republic. There are rhythms in these matters. Nineteen years ago, the New York...
...seven freshmen out of school for a year for making the Harvard computer print out "This computer test sucks" several dozen times in a row and perform other electronic tricks as a way of protesting the pesky QRR computer test. It was, said one insider, a prank that "any idiot could have done...