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Apple Macintosh Computer. The Mac and its disks are still sexy and trim by conventional, clunky PC standards, but the machine is more than merely an artifact of stylishness or miniaturization. Its software is unusually lucid and engaging, and the mouse is to using computers what the ballpoint was to...
Brazil (1985). The movie too good to be seen! That's what Universal Pictures suggested when it hedged on releasing Terry Gilliam's apocalyptic satire about a man caught in the vise of bureaucracy. The studio couldn't see that Brazil does brilliantly what movies do best: create teeming, coherent...
Into the Woods (1987). Stephen Sondheim's best musical was gorgeous to look at, haunting to hear and thought provoking to remember. A fractured fairy tale that brought into the same forest Cinderella, Rapunzel and the like, it asked what comes after happily-ever-after, pondering what it means to...
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963 by Taylor Branch (1988). What lifted this biography to new heights was Branch's researches into the origins of the Southern black churches and their influence in inspiring and organizing Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil rights revolution. Volume II...
Jerome Kern: Show Boat (Angel/EMI, 1988). With a cast that boasted the likes of mezzo Frederica von Stade, the landmark American musical was revealed for what it is: a landmark American opera as well.