Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Doom" makes you shiver and run for cover, never fear. Just as Wesley Snipes showed his softer side in "To Wong Foo," game manufacturers have increasingly cultivated user-friendly products...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: In a move that has put radio stations nationwide on a competitive alert, the Federal Communications Commission has decided to open up the airwaves to fee-charging national stations using digital sound. The news outraged radio broadcasters, who fear that pay-to-listen digital radio spells doom for small-town radio. "The bottom line is that satellite-delivered radio threatens the thousands of community radio stations, which provide local news, weather and sports, and have made the U.S. system of broadcasting the envy of the world," says National Association of Broadcasters spokesman Dennis Wharton. Maybe, but the more...
Note to aspiring actors: if your idea of movie stardom is a big trailer and a seven-figure salary, consider the career of Parker Posey. At 28, she has ornamented more than a dozen American independent films. Yet to get to the set of Gregg Araki's The Doom Generation, where she played the leading lady's "eternal love slave" in a blond friz wig, Posey had to pay half her airfare. For Party Girl, in which she did a beguiling star turn as a club hopper with the improbable dream of being a librarian, she earned...
...concern had nothing to do with the way Kinsley appeared to be flirting with doom by regularly needling his boss in his "readme" column. ("Have it killed," Bill Gates orders Kinsley in a recent column. "You mean, 'Have him killed,'" Kinsley replies, referring to the author of a Slate article. "No, you fools," Gates shrieks. "Kill the piece! Kill the piece!") I suspect such stuff is seen at Microsoft headquarters as a necessary evil, a way for Kinsley to demonstrate Slate's independence...
...tale to a ministering angel (Juliette Binoche) who can give him what he needs: not absolution but understanding. The lovers are Ralph Fiennes--all coiled sexiness, threat shrouded in hauteur--and Kristin Scott Thomas, who has the gift of making intelligence erotic; they come together in a dance of doom that is abrasive, mysterious, powerful, inevitable. Anthony Minghella's beautiful film, based on the Michael Ondaatje novel, gets the rapture right, with a scope and intimacy rarely seen on film since the David Lean days...