Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...appear to snap back to the plane of the screen, sending conflicting depth cues to the brain and destroying the 3-D illusion. The advantage of the wraparound Solido theater is that the edges of the screen are beyond the audience's field of view. "The screen seems to disappear in the peripheral vision," says Imax producer Roman Kroitor. "The picture stays right there; you can reach out and touch...
...dealing with AIDS is clearly sapping fashion's creative energies. People are worried that co-workers will disappear into the hospital from one day to ! the next. In smaller ateliers, such twists of fate can demoralize the staff and derail a whole collection. In an effort to survive in the business, some men are reportedly getting married to cover up the fact that they are gay. Health and life insurers, as well as banks and financiers, increasingly demand that men, and even women, be tested for AIDS as part of fashion-business arrangements. Says designer Betsey Johnson...
...household staff and, at last count, two Rolls-Royces. And De Laurentiis is pursuing his new films with youthful ebullience. "The world hasn't seen the end of Dino," says MCA president Sidney Sheinberg. "Showmen sometimes miss the pulse of the public, but they generally don't die and disappear...
...East Germany's headaches. There is an evident shortage of competent non-Communists. Admits CDU spokesman Helmut Luck: "We are desperately looking for suitable people to fill top administrative posts." But it will be no easy task persuading people to take jobs in a government that is likely to disappear in a year...
Besides, Gorbachev may not disappear this week, or next, or anytime soon. He may last long enough to prove that he is the sheriff, perhaps even the tiger. But whatever happens to Gorbachev or to his troubled country, there is one thing that neither today's Kremlinologists nor future historians can deny: it was he who made the ice melt...