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Putnam Professor of Pure and Applied Mathematics Emeritus Garett Birkhoff '32, an expert on algebra and fluid mechanics, died at his home in Water Mill...
...aborning--the animated feature for which no one has to go to the trouble of drawing all those millions of cels. The wondrous Babe, with its seamless blend of live footage, mechanical and visual effects and uplifting sentiment, pioneered the idea; 101 Dalmatians (which, of course, remakes one of pure animation's classics) cheerfully expands the territory; and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has always seemed more of a cartoon character than an actor anyway, may be about to Jingle All the Way to the bank with his variation...
...phones, we've settled our prize for best machine on the new Nintendo 64, which has done to video-gaming what the 707 did to air travel. Since arriving on American shores in late September, the 64 has set records for sales, hype and, most important, slack jaws. The pure mix of art and technology implicit in the machine's design and the games that run on it help it transcend the category of mere amusement. It sets, our editors found, a whole new standard in electronic entertainment, smashing barriers that the bug-filled Internet and clumsy personal computers have...
...book--Capote's masterly accretion of detail in telling the true story of a prosperous Kansas farm family's gruesome murder--the film meanders about, touching on unoriginal themes: that men can kill with no good reason, that boys brutalized will grow up to brutalize, that the pure of heart often die in vain...
Some of the Clintons' cultural normalcy is, of course, pure political theater, but some of it is who they genuinely are. Bill worries about his weight, Hillary frets that Chelsea may go too far away to college, together they work on their imperfect marriage. In this they are not so different from the rest of us. Which is probably why, in the early days of his term, when the Clintons spent a lot of time palling around with the likes of Barbra Streisand and, in the case of the President, being attended by a Beverly Hills stylist, they came across...