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...HISTORY OF THE ADVENTURES OF MR. ROSS PEROT AND HIS CURIOUS QUEST TO BE BOSS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIS WAY OR NO WAY | 8/12/1996 | See Source »

...America's quintessential media consumer: a hardworking breadwinner who settles down after dinner with his feet up and his thumb on the remote. So Tim Bajarin, an analyst at the research firm Creative Strategies, was curious about how the man would react to a focus-group presentation of Silicon Valley's latest hot idea: using a TV receiver to cruise the Internet. As Bajarin watched, the subject waited patiently a full 30 seconds for a sports-related Web page to fill the screen. He studied it for a minute, then looked up and asked, "When do the movies start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BIGGEST THING SINCE COLOR? | 8/12/1996 | See Source »

...American homes that aren't yet connected. For this Passive Majority, most of whom don't even own a computer, let alone a modem, "Net TV" would seem to make perfect sense. After all, nearly everybody in America has a TV and a telephone, and many are presumably curious to learn what the World Wide Web is all about. If they could use their existing sets to access the Infobahn from the comfort of their La-Z-Boys, the Web might finally become the mass medium its promoters have been promising all along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BIGGEST THING SINCE COLOR? | 8/12/1996 | See Source »

Singling out ID4 for special praise is as curious as his commendation for True Lies in his earlier Movietown foray. Well, maybe not: both have heroines who strip and both were produced by 20th Century Fox, the studio controlled by Rupert Murdoch, a schlockmeister and heavy G.O.P. supporter who has contributed to Dole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WASHINGTON DIARY: DOLE: THE MOVIE, PART II | 8/12/1996 | See Source »

...money in at least one department. Sure, the athletic performances are good, but the advertising! It's refreshing to know that in an era of reduced arts funding the most creative minds of our time have found another outlet into which they can funnel their talents. It's always curious to notice the way in which mass media has transformed our cultural resources The advertising industry has done just that by providing ad designers with a broader public viewing base than artists or writers usually ever attain. David it's not, but in its own twisted way, advertising...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The 'Seduction' of America | 8/2/1996 | See Source »

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