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Brown came within one when freshman Andrea Boudreau stuck a loose puck in the back of the twines. Whyte looked like her old self, breaking away from everyone and beating Presbrey on a text-book backhand...
...examined the text and the layout of the advertisement closely: it was a full page designed to look like a news article, proposing to "reopen" debate about a topic that had been, its author argued, unfairly closed. Much like this fall's 56-page Peninsula issue, the the Holocaust ad cloaked its aggressive position by carefully appealing to "free speech" sensibilities--an appeal that often finds its greatest supporters among the journalism community. Such a tactic offers, as Professor of English and Comparative Literature Barbara E. Johnson noted in yesterday's Boston Globe, "a grammar of reason with a rhetoric...
...custodian of his own image, Clinton pores over the text and visuals for the television spots currently blanketing New Hampshire. The first was "easy," he says. "It conformed to the strategy." The 60-second spot ran through Clinton's proposals for reviving the economy and invited voters to visit their libraries to read the "Clinton Plan." He is now going further. The 15-page paper is being mailed to every registered voter in New Hampshire...
Last November, Sony introduced its Data Discman, a $549.95 hand-held player that displays the text of books stored not on computer chips but on compact discs. Apple Computer chairman John Sculley has announced that his company will begin shipping a similar product next year. The advantage: CDs are relatively cheap and hold immense quantities of data. Among the 23 CDs currently available for the Discman is a single $40 item loaded with 150 classic works of literature, including the Iliad and Odyssey, the plays of Shakespeare, the complete Sherlock Holmes, and War and Peace. All that's lacking...
...PHILANTHROPIST. Two decades ago, Christopher Hampton was proclaimed a budding genius for this drawing-room tragicomedy about a man who accomplishes only evil in trying to do good. Apart from Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Hampton's promise remains unfulfilled. New Haven's Long Wharf Theater revisits his breakthrough text...