Word: disc
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...machine hurtling through the air is firmly in the pilot's control. That faith was shaken last week by a report that a DC-10 coming into New York's Kennedy airport recently almost crashed when a passenger in first class turned on his portable compact disc player...
...according to Tallon at the Black Rose, this disc might be worth buying...
...move only the former Olympian could pull off, Drury raced down the left side of the ice, wrapped up in the clutches of Yale freshman John Emmons. As he recovered a Chris Baird rebound, Drury flicked the puck back to clear it. As the disc sailed high, it landed on the pads of Yale sophomore goalie Todd Sullivan and bounced into...
With the very first scene, all the huggy-warmy feelings usually associated with animated features take a nose dive. This futuristic movie on laser disc is a virtuoso piece of speculative fiction, a violent adventure tale, a head- bending sci-fi morality play and a venture into the higher realms of animation art that kicks all the squishier conventions of the genre right in their well-upholstered butt...
...deep night and lurid neon that looks like Blade Runner on spoiled mushrooms. It's no wonder that Akira, first released in Tokyo in 1988, is still playing the midnight-movie circuit in U.S. theaters. So far, it's not available on videotape either, which is fair enough. Laser disc -- with its superior sound and resolution -- can put Akira right behind your eyes. Watching it on tape would be like trying to get the full experience from a flip-book...