Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Holly Hunter touches all of Jane's moods -- funny, flinty, vulnerable, bizarrely controlled -- before the opening credits of Writer-Director James L. Brooks' Broadcast News are concluded. At first, this protean display seems the equivalent of a Save the Children billboard on Sunset Strip: "Won't someone please nominate this girl for an Oscar?" But Hunter, 29 and 5 ft. 2 in., is no late entry in the prima donna sweepstakes. She is a hardscrabble sprite from Conyers, Ga., a dues payer from off-Broadway (Beth Henley's The Miss Firecracker Contest) and off-Hollywood (Joel and Ethan Coen...
...broadcast as a series of undulating waves, into digital impulses -- strings of 0s and 1s. The digital signals can then be transformed by microprocessors -- tiny computers on silicon chips -- to achieve a variety of exotic effects. When the processing is complete, the signals are changed back to analog for display on an ordinary TV picture tube...
...high-capacity videodisks, much as videotapes are distributed today. A third approach involves splitting the HDTV signal into two parts and transmitting it over two separate broadcast channels. Old TV sets could utilize enough of the signal to provide a standard-quality picture, while an HDTV receiver could display the higher-resolution image...
...dinner companions smiled at the Harvard senior at the table by the door. Then, after each one had taken a free button from a display on the table, the senior asked us to sign a petition "for the union...
Snap judgments emerged as quickly as the images last week, when TV took over the national stage for an extraordinary display of video diplomacy and politicking. On Monday the American public got its first extended look at General Secretary Gorbachev, in an hour-long prime-time interview conducted by NBC Anchorman Tom Brokaw. The following night all twelve Democratic and Republican presidential candidates gathered for the first time to engage in a two-hour debate, again moderated by Brokaw. President Reagan snared his own half-hour of prime time on Thursday, answering questions from four TV anchormen in a session...