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Sixty-five pages of text? No problem; that's just a junior paper times two. Nights devoted to microfiche and Micros World? She could handle it; "ten thousand men" and women of Harvard had before...

Author: By Jay K. Varma, | Title: Funky Diva | 6/10/1993 | See Source »

...Cube" (the name for the cubbyhole we occupy in 14 Plympton) has not been all fear and loathing. I'll eternally be grateful to The Crimson, because through this job I've met more people, made more friends, experienced more emotions, done more things, seen more places, written more text and eaten more free Munchkins and turkey sand-wiches than I could have doing any other activity...

Author: By Jay K. Varma, | Title: The Long Goodbye | 6/10/1993 | See Source »

...public Clinton is little better: his speeches continue to be leviathan, rambling affairs, the result of his tendency to veer from his text as much as he sticks to it. Oval Office meetings that should take a few minutes often go on for hours. A brief update session last month on potential Supreme Court nominees that was scheduled to last 10 minutes dragged on for two hours as Clinton talked through the philosophies of various candidates. "He really loves the intellectual give-and-take," said an official. "But the time pressures and political pressures are such that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Sinking Feeling | 6/7/1993 | See Source »

...anybody who reads romance novels will testify, words can be just as exciting as pictures, and much of the sexual activity on the networks is strictly text only. The Internet, the government-sponsored data pipeline that links computer networks around the world, is the repository of hundreds of sexually explicit narratives organized, in the Internet's bizarre filing system, by sexual preference: sex.bestiality, sex.bondage, sex.fetish.feet. And nearly every network offers some form of "hot chat" capability, in which users attempt to turn each other on by composing one-line messages that appear on each other's computer screens as they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Orgies On-Line | 5/31/1993 | See Source »

...speech fragments. The Cave -- the title refers to the cave of Machpelah where Abraham and his family are supposedly buried -- is Come Out come out. Projected on five huge video screens, the interviews -- all in answer to the question, Who is Abraham? -- are treated both as the opera's text and as its musical raw material, from which Reich draws every element of his score...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Words Sliced And Diced | 5/31/1993 | See Source »

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