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Things I'm gt docks wi Some people will say that I'm too this. And they may be right. What in 1 be nostalgic about? Well, I'm not g communicative before I start bitchir going to do it while I'm young and at i You know, of course, what I'm t takeover of our timekeeping devices happen overnight: while you were a that round clocks and watches wer into the Future along with everythini strange, outer-space devices on peop It was easy to dismiss this as an watch is tenacious; it hangs on ar survival of the fittest. It looked ai become obsolete because it was nigh day was even mildly sunny. At first, to attack the pride of digital wearer would ask cruelly of some young exc at a bus stop. After doing everything noor schnook would whimrw?r "I pan But now the things are made so tl nace, if necessary. So we have lost e\ What is the fascination with dig person with a digital watch what t something like, "nine forty-seven." l.- : J L^ J i n iwve sis lu, Duup-uuup-ue-uuupi n or a flight number, or an address. 1 time. The only people who say times lift since trains don't run on time anyw many times have you heard someone thought it was nine forty-four!" an portant like an appointment with the That's the most insidious feature o new field of psychological terroi disturbing about a device that knows That's fine for the big clock in Gre near me with the Nazi-like perfects thousand years. Clocks and watches with faces a Look at the terms: what could be Certainly not 4 'LIGHT-EMITTING secret weapon developed by the foe rather have in your bedroom, a kii "COMPUVISUAL MARK VIICHRO Maybe it's all symptomatic of soi the past, it was cute when little ki< when Mickey's hands are pointing t "Mommy, what's it mean when Micl The most disturbing thing, howei you can't see the other times. On ai can see the other numbers; you can i 1 i J t ? ? 1 ana you can imagine wnere uie nanc it's only NOW! and suddenly NOW! gone, lost in the mysterious electron numbers. Personally, I want to knou Maybe I'm being too complaining in the way of Progress. What differ what time it is? Well, maybe; I pre old-fashioned clocks and watches. 1 about what they're giving up. Or maybe I'm just behind the time MARLON BRANDC MARTIN SHEN f SAM BOTTOMS an B mrsa *&& ' V. ?ing to miss: th faces he m young to be starting a series like ;he world does a 20-year-old have to oing to wait until I'm old and un- . ig about the Way Things Were; I'm my bitchy peak. alking about here: the marvelous ^ t by digital numerals. It seemed to ~ sleep, the terrifying They decided Hj e passe. Timekeeping must move K i pise So sudrienlv uia hpffnn tn qpp le's wrists. tother passing fad, but the digital td has actually evolved to ensure 3 though the digital watch would x_ i impossible to read the thing if the -r this was a good way for us radicals . s. "Hey, bud, what time is it?" we . icutive standing in blazing sunlight chnrt nf nnnctniMinrt o pnn^iol fkn W??VI V VTA VVIUJU UVVlllg U OlUIUIOlf UIV ( 4 , 't tell." c< lat they can be read in a blast fur- [j ren that thin advantage. P ital timekeeping, anyway? Ask a ime it is and he will respond with .. For my purposes, he might as well ine-forty-seven is a room number, a. Mow, "about a quarter to ten" is a :e "9:47" are in train stations, and ^ 'ay, what's the point? I mean, how 5 say, "Nine forty-seven? My God, I c J 1. " u luau uit iu wuicuuii^ viutujr uii- p ir analyst? Jj f digital time: it creates an entirely rs. There is something vaguely ^ i exactly what time it is all the time, enwich, but I don't want anything ir on of losing only one second in ten ^ w nrt hnnHc orp fripnHlu onH hnmpv nicer than "faces" and "hands"? ? r-DIODES," which sounds like a s of James Bond. Which would you ^ ndly old "grandfather clock" or a NOMETER?" * nething wrong with our culture. In ds said, "Mommy, what's it mean 0 o four and twelve?" Now kids ask, sey's stomach says 410:29'?" ver, is that with digital timepieces |! a old-fashioned watch or clock, you f| see the bauds moving towards them rp Is have been. With a digital readout I is gone; it's not just in the past, it's ic humming behind the pretty green f where my past is. about all this; maybe I'm standing ence does it make how we find out fer to think of it as a defense of the Maybe people just haven't thought S. f: I ROBERT DUVALL FREDERIC FORREST d DENNIS HOPPER 5/8TERBO | prj. I P^oh] Sal- | Sun. 1 1 -3:45 I 1 7?9:45 I p?t? iAr&. $1% v%*y4K*<y. > Sfcv i# Strong arm ii protects us . By Mark Chevalier Ent?rtainm?m Editor aDOUt GVCry tCIl S Unfortunately, it looks as if I'll the callers were f ive to travel out of state to have *?ld me? "only 01 y moral fabric violated, thanks support of the canc my protective god-father in Navey also told ashington, Strom Thurmond. ?\ "ie 40 w^? w?r Seems that Senator Thurmond "*m 011 Friday nif _ _ At #?l WW ought his royal wrath down on ^ *ne mm. mi e General Cinema Corporation to about 20 percent Dp the Columbia premier of children. onty Python's The Life of Brian. One wonders i: Thurmond's 4 community SBBBBSSISSI&HHHj In a?y event, th< raises a numbei ~ questions, mostly According to the Saturday principles involve* lition of the Columbia Record, a First off, Fir lost Rev. William Soloman of rights guarantee mo called Nancy Thurmond who choice, thus I shoi i turn called her all-powerful, all- decide for mysell lowing hubby in Washington. He any given gesture t turn called General Cinema's to see a questiona lain office in Massachusetts, and blasphemous film Communicated an overwhelming go, yet I demand tl immunity sentiment against the for myself. lm," according to General inema's attorney, Samual p ? ? rankenhiem. . The following paragraph states < lat "the crowd of about 40" let out | cheer when Jim Navey, manager n f General Cinema's Columbia ! [all theatres, announced that he I ad received word to cancel the | low. a I called Navey around noon on | aturday after reading the I ecord's story. He told me that the [] leatre had been besieged with @ hone calls, nearly 200 since he p ame to work at ten, questioning ri ll.A! I re miiiuiui iur caiiceuauun. | Unable to confirm Thurmond's * jr lvolvement, I visited Navey later J ? lat day at the theatre, yet he I dm rould neither confirm nor deny the ' eason for the cancellation of the , Creofivi lm. tl He did tell me that since he had | fashion liked to me earlier that day, it I ras now about four, the number of J EssonCB hone calls in support of rein- I tating the film had climbed to I 610 Han ver 600. ! 5 Point "The phone has been ringing " SPECIALS ft ^ NIGHTS \ ^_JLJ| A J |c/5^QU T< WEEK J ^ , MONDAY Spaghetti and i B A JM *U TA?or?/V < vvrirt i (A>oc7is *. Garlic Bread, C ) TUESDAY Manicotti, serv French Bread a, WEDNESDAY Lasagna, servt and French Bre THURSDAY Eggplant Parm Spaghetti, /tali5 -CLIP 8. 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