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...week after AOL's dominance seemed threatened by AT&T's growing cable empire and deals with At Home and Microsoft. The set-top box is supposed to hold special appeal for the half of U.S. households that don't have a computer, a market that AOL must tap in order to maintain its torrid growth (now past 17 million subscribers...
...begin chattering at once: American society in the late '90s is a busy chat room set up for just this kind of thing (Oklahoma City, O.J.), with noisy experts on tap, interrupting one another from different quadrants of the screen. We round up the usual suspects--in the current case, our cretinous popular culture; the Internet, with its rancid cul-de-sacs; violent movies; idiot television; vicious rap; ubiquitous sex. One high school counselor cast a wide net on MSNBC: "It's all those things, ekcedra, ekcedra, ekcedra." The "ekcedra" includes adolescence itself, a form of temporary insanity that...
However, many of his poems, perhaps his strongest ones, manage to tap into some universality. He expresses fears and insecurities with which all people can relate yet which are rarely expressed. In his poem "Creak," he voices the insecurities of writing a love letter. "I wrote a note to her/That splattered into rhyme against my wishes./So I scrunched it up and said if it hits the bin/There's going to be a relationship." Later in his poem titled "The Room," he verbally paints the image of a room, once occupied by a son, which is now left empty...
...Taps, a relatively new dance troop specializing in--you guessed it--tap dancing joined the troupe for this performance and was equally enchanting. The feet were fast, the click of the shoes faster and the audience the fastest of all to acknowledge their skill. And alas! those darn toothy smiles! These dancers all looked like they were actually having fun gyrating on the stage, an exceedingly far cry from the tense grimaces otherwise normal people might display if forced to dance the Macarena at a spring formal. And those smiles made all the difference...
This environment reporter's idea of interactive technology was to tap the computer case with a 12-in. adjustable-end wrench to correct vapor lock and improve e-mail reception. Mostly on instinct, he patrolled the environment outdoors and avoided the World Wide Web. The information superhighway vanished last year, he noticed, at least as an annoying metaphor, and maybe the World Wide Web would go away...