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...debate over whether the computer or the TV set will become the principal means of bringing the electronic highway into the home is a game everyone in the information industry plays. One side argues that the familiar ``boob tube'' will hold its ground. ``The TV set will continue to be the dominant home consumer appliance,'' declares Tom Jermoluk, president of Silicon Graphics, which built the microchips for the set-top boxes and huge media servers that are being used to shuttle movies to and from households in Time Warner's Florida test. Others say television will soon be passe. ``There...
...Aidan "Ole Blue Eyes" Quinn) is so hackneyed that you begin to feel embarrassed for the actors. The embarrassment grows during the required epiphanal sex scene. Against a background of Muzak, we are treated to close-ups of the big blue vein in the side of Madeleine Stowe's boob and the long hair on Aidan Quinn's chest. Director Apted has no sense of tasteful nudity. Or relevant nudity, for that matter. Why does Apted waste precious minutes on the scene where Emma walks around her apartment naked, sniffing flowers: Is he implying that she has blossomed sexually...
...masculine-sort of guy, a throwback to the pre-Fabio days when bigness and masculinity necessarily went together, and he was exceptionally friendly: he had spent more time playing catch with me while I was growing up than he had watching the Royals on the boob tube...
...Hispanic racial anger, Twilight wrongly implies that rioting and looting were committed almost entirely by blacks. The play depicts a "social explosion" by the law-abiding; in fact, many criminals saw an opportunity and took it. There are sympathetic white characters, but everyone in authority emerges as a reckless boob -- perhaps because Smith enacts with dignity only those she admires. Still, Twilight is dazzling and depressing, rich in details that subtly illuminate the problem of race. Rodney King's angry aunt, recalling happier times, refers to one of her nephew's companions as "that Mexican." His ethnicity reveals nothing...
...keep you homebound and party-shy, interactive TV may shut down your social life altogether. Last week the Federal Communications Commission paved the way for the proliferation of a technology that permits TV owners to bank, pay bills and order everything from Chinese food to tennis shoes through the boob tube. A remote-control device accesses menu screens offering up the various services...