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This program is by no means arbitrary! It is planned out with great precision, down to the choosing of the stores at random on a secret computer generated list...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cops Belong in Shops | 1/9/1998 | See Source »

...question is settled. And thus begins the deliciously corrupt 'producing' of a war by Brean and Stanley Motss (Dustin Hoffman), a loquacious Hollywood producer who equates the crisis with the importance of maintaining a full tan. The war campaign is perfectly orchestrated--the President is photographed with random civilians posing as Albanians, clips that feature screaming young girls are shot on a soundstage and sent directly to news stations, and Willie Nelson is even brought in to write a theme song. When the stakes are raised near election day, the gang even finds a random 'hero' for their war--Willie...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Film at Eleven: Bigger, Better Conspiracy Theory | 1/9/1998 | See Source »

Inside the computer is a circuit board. It houses all sorts of microchips, including those for ROM (read-only memory) and RAM (random-access memory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW THE CHIP WORKS | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

...Small Things (Random House) Arundhati Roy's bold debut achieves an intensity that will feel familiar to fans of D.H. Lawrence. The author sometimes seems too clever for her novel's good, but her material triumphs. Three small children, a blue Plymouth and the lushness of southern India merge into a gripping story of passion thwarted by prejudice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: THE BEST BOOKS OF 1997 | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

...Whittaker Chambers (Random House) Historian Sam Tanenhaus rights an old imbalance in this scrupulous biography. For more than 40 years, most discussions of the Alger Hiss-Whittaker Chambers affair focused on Hiss: innocent, as he claimed, or guilty, as Chambers charged? But of the two, Chambers was by far the more interesting person and tormented soul. Tanenhaus' perceptive illumination of Chambers' life also lights up a dark, troubled period of American history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: THE BEST BOOKS OF 1997 | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

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