Word: color
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First, I am glad that baseball has decided to dedicate this season to Robinson. Nevertheless, I think we should not forget that it was Robinson who broke the color barrier, it was not baseball who welcomed Robinson with open arms. I get the impression that the recent celebrations of Robinson's remarkable feat tend to have the look-how-we-let-Jackie-Robinson-integrate-baseball feel to it. While there were some men like Rickey, the ruling brass of baseball did not look to kindly on having a black player in the majors. Robinson's class and integrity was enough...
...Tiger Woods. Three weeks ago, he appeared on the cover of the April issue of GQ magazine in a typically silly spread (you know the kind: "In the limo,fresh from a terribly wearisome photo shoot, Tiger Woods says..."). The interviewer, Charles Pierce, quotes him making some notably off-color remarks, and what was worse, it seemed clear from this interview that Tiger was in the habit of cracking jokes about African-Americans. People did not know quite what to make...
...effective lighting reflects the scenes and the dialogue clearly. When Foley has a soliloquy describing how his family thinks they know him (but really don't), he steps forward and the back lighting dims and turns a reddish color, drawing attention to him alone and providing a sense of unreality. In another scene, during one of the family gatherings in the living room, Zung performs a Vietnamese dance in silhouette behind the set's back wall, which is bathed in a hot-pink light and becomes transparent...
...Pretty much everything. Digital signals' startling improvements in visual detail and color produce a picture that looks almost 3-D compared to analog. For programming suited to a wide screen--movies and sports in particular--the leap from analog to digital could well be as striking as that from black and white to color...
...additional bandwidth will cut into the number of channels they can offer--while cable services like HBO retool to produce digital shows. A few years hence, your local cable or satellite guy will start offering, alongside the usual 60 analog channels, a tier of scintillating HDTV programming, with brilliant color and sound...