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This spring, the Office of Disability Resources will acquire a talking computer, a computer with enlarged print for the visually impaired and a Braille typesetter, says Shin. It will also acquire a scanner which will read and then transfer text onto a disk, which could then be used with the typesetter. Shin says he is excited about the purchases...
...Gospel text for the day was familiar enough: Matthew 4, depicting the devil's threefold temptation of Jesus in the wilderness. But the Sunday sermon, delivered last week by New York's John Cardinal O'Connor, quickly became a headline grabber. To illustrate the reality of evil and give the biblical theme a contemporary twist, O'Connor recited what he termed "gruesomely realistic" portions of The Exorcist, the 1971 novel (and later film) that drew upon accounts of hundreds of exorcisms. Moreover, after Mass the Cardinal revealed to reporters that priests had been authorized to perform two exorcisms...
...weight the merits of an experimental production, a reviewer would need, firstly, more than 18 inches of space, and secondly, a familiarity with the text and the tradition of the play's performance, so that the reviewer knows what is experimental abou the new performance. (Such knowledge might have helped Caroline Chaffin recognize the As You Like It sequence in Straight lines, which she is "not sure" she saw. It was the part where the actors began to speak in blank verse and then introduced themselves as characters from As You Like...
...Text by Bruce W. Nelan, Brigid O'Hara-Forster...
Most buyers purchase Street News because they feel more comfortable giving money to a homeless person offering a product than to someone who simply wants a handout. Those who actually read the paper are unlikely to be bowled over by its literary merits. The bulk of the text consists of breezy, opinionated pieces signed by a motley assortment of celebrities and business executives. The most interesting items are the prose and poems penned by homeless contributors...