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...take these results very seriously." James S. Ackerman, chairman of the Department of Fine Arts, and said this week." The moment these surveys come out. I leap for them and see how out team looks to the rest of the country...
...first computers, even those built with transistors, were put together like early radios, with tangles of wires connecting each component. But soon electronics manufacturers realized that the wiring could be "printed" directly on a board, eliminating much of the hand-wiring. Then came another quantum leap into the miniworld. In the late 1950s, Texas Instruments' Jack Kilby and Fairchild Semiconductor's Robert Noyce (one of eight defectors from Shockley's firm whom he scathingly called the "traitorous eight") had the same brainstorm. Almost simultaneously, they realized that any number of transistors could be etched directly...
...victor is supposed to leap the net magnanimously, not be dragged over it ignominiously. But after an exhibition volley with Martina Navratilova, 26, Duncan, the New Jersey Nets' team mascot, gave her an oaf-handed shake that she would probably like to forget. Navratilova could afford a forgiving smile though: last week she erased any doubts (held by Chris Evert Lloyd) about who is the top-ranked player in women's tennis. Winning the Toyota championship in New Jersey, Navratilova defeated Lloyd 4-6, 6-1, 6-2, for the $75,000 purse, season earnings...
...takes no sorcerer's power to realize that this other land is one small leap of the imagination from J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, and that Jen's adventures will frequently echo the Hobbit Frodo Baggins' in The Lord of the Rings. As narrative, the incidents in The Dark Crystal are unremarkable; as the excuse for special effects, fanciful decor and eccentric characters, they do nicely enough. Here, as in such ambitious films as Blade Runner and Diva, texture is more important than text. The slow funeral procession of Mystics across an undulating desert; the Skeksis...
With his first two books, English Author Bruce Chatwin revealed a flair for the exotic and unexpected. In Patagonia (1978) conducted a guided tour through a remote, forlorn region of South America. The Viceroy of Ouidah (1980) took an imaginative leap in time and space back to the flourishing days of the West African slave trade. Given these performances and the critical praise they received, Chatwin's third book (and second novel) seems more surprising still. On the Black Hill has nothing at all to do with wanderlust or faraway places; it is as firmly rooted to one spot...