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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...words of the film are those of Jarman, who recounts his experiences while being treated with DHPG--an experimental drug used on people with AIDS--as an out-patient in a London clinic. Reduced to waiting, he takes to observing those around him. In chilling detail, Jarman describes the other patients in the hospital who are also slowly going blind. An old man stumbles to a chair and despairs at the impossibility of ver reading newspaper. Lives are restructured around treatment whose side effects are a mortal disease in themselves. Each person is assigned a number, ostensibly in order...
Higonnet argues that he has two interconnected goals: to provide students with a mastery of historical fact and detail while acknowledging the "postmodernist sensibility" in history...
Clinton's knack for self-renewal was evident again last week. As the economy showed signs of steady improvement, he was remaking his political goals to fit the electorate's less anxious mood. He all but boasted that nearly every detail of his controversial health-care reform proposal was negotiable, including its all-important implementation timetable. And he reached deep into enemy territory, stealing Republican rhetoric on crime, defense cuts and values to appeal to independent voters who have been slowest to find their "comfort level" with Clinton. The centrist language -- "We can't renew our country until we realize...
...about electronic desktops in 1945), Douglas Engelbart (who invented windows and the mouse) and Alan Kay's team at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center in California (which put the ideas to work in a language called Smalltalk and a machine called the Alto). Levy re-creates in vivid detail the December 1979 "daylight raid," when the scrappy engineers from Apple, invited to see the Alto, walked into a Xerox demo room and walked out with something more valuable than Federal Reserve notes or gold bullion: a working paradigm for what a computer should...
...feelings are unmistakable and eloquent. What makes this film so affecting is not so much the subject as its treatment--it presents two points of view fairly, without subordinating one man's life. "Philadelphia" manages to handle something very serious with effortless elegance. It is uncompromised, beautiful, truthful in detail and resonant with emotion...