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The phone companies and cable-TV systems are jockeying for position in what each views as a potentially vast market but which neither is ready to create. Stuart Brotman, a communications specialist in Lexington, Mass., estimates that cable operators would have to spend $20 billion to $30 billion on digital...
Since the first videophone was unveiled at the New York World's Fair in 1964, doctors have dreamed of healing by wire. But the reality of transmitting a detailed picture over a 1-mm-thick (.04 in.) copper cable proved elusive. Then in the 1980s engineers working with a technique...
"The art of writing a short story is an art of compression. The best short stories suggest novels--the characters linger in your mind," he said.
The triumvirate has collaborated on 15 films, many dramatizing the abrasion of English and Indian cultures: Shakespeare Wallah, The Guru, Autobiography of a Princess. But the best-known Merchant Ivory movies could be called Anglo- English: stately adaptations from Henry James (The Europeans, The Bostonians), Jean Rhys (Quartet) and E.M...
Lee also continues to insist that he needs at least three hours of screen time to trace the dramatic transformations of Malcolm's life: from the street hustler who sold drugs and women into the charismatic spokesman for the Black Muslims who preached black self-determination and antiwhite rhetoric and...