Word: contently
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Comcast venture is Microsoft's attempt to push its content beyond the computer literate and into the mass market. Two months ago, Gates paid $425 million for WebTV Networks, which makes set-top boxes that allow Internet surfing through TV sets. "Gates is really confirming that the Internet is a medium, not a technology," says Christopher Dixon, a media analyst at Paine Webber. "They have content and need distribution. The key is that Microsoft has accelerated the development of opportunities in line with its prior investments...
...tiptoeing away from what worked. Pocahontas had soaring melodies to match its do-gooding intentions; The Hunchback of Notre Dame came within two deaths and three cute gargoyles of being the first grownup singing-cartoon romantic tragedy. But these two movies also had an almost toxic serioso content. At times they got so solemn they could have been Broadway musicals in the fashionable I'm-miserable-I'm-a- monster-I'm-a-Times-Square-whore-my-ship-is-sinking mode. Songs for suicides...
...game design has begun. "Three-D is like Technicolor," says Wilson, pooh-poohing the value of Carmack's perpetual tinkering with his game engines (the latest, code-named Trinity, is due next year). "Once you're there, you're there. It's time to focus on content...
...children, the eldest of whom is actor RALPH FIENNES, weren't about to let it rest at that. While making The English Patient, Fiennes mentioned the book to Patient author Michael Ondaatje, who suggested the actor pitch it to his publisher, who loved it and bought it. Not content with that, half the Fiennes family (sister Sophie and brother Joseph are also in show biz) went on tour to drum up interest. Needless to say, the book got all the attention a publishing house--or a mom--could want...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: On the eve of a landmark Supreme Court decision, the Clinton Administration has abandoned its gung-ho support for regulating Internet content, arguing instead that the industry should police itself. At issue is a law which would make distribution of "indecent material" over the Internet to minors a federal crime. The new policy, to be made public by President Clinton at an event on July 1 designed to promote Internet commerce, states that the existence of devices which allow parental monitoring of Internet use renders legislative regulation of the medium unneccessary, The New York Times reported. The Supreme...