Word: famed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...judge, whose ruling could lead to a retrial, said several jurors were prejudiced by knowledge of Keating's 1991 conviction on similar charges in a California state court. That verdict vaporized too: a federal appeals court overturned it last April on grounds that Judge Lance Ito (of O.J. fame) had given jurors improper instructions...
...sacred music of Bach as well as Schutz and other composers, is sung, fiddled and drummed as sacred music was intended--during a service of worship. Not to mention that the music is exquisitely performed by a full orchestra and professional singers, many of whom have gone on to fame...
...sets, designed by Peter Miller of Hasty Pudding fame, create an illusion of more depth than the petite Agassiz has to offer and match the performers' intensity with one of color, as do the vivid costumes by Carrie Benes and Sara Smith. Even the lighting plays an active role in the scenes--sometimes overactive, such that the first act, which takes place in less than a day, seems to see more than one sunrise...
...greatest miracles come from a specially developed internal processing chip that does one thing--paint rich pictures on your TV--better than any other device in history. Called the Reality Co-Processor, the chip was designed by 3-D special-effects giant Silicon Graphics (of Jurassic Park fame) and built by Japanese chip monolith NEC. Even as computers do more in smaller spaces, there's something extraordinary here: SGI and NEC have stuffed the sophistication of a $10,000 workstation into...
...father (Armin Mueller-Stahl), a Jewish communist who was also a chronic German patriarch. "Music is your friend," says Papa in his Fuhrer-knows-best tone. "Everything else will let you down." David also has the classical pianist's romantic soul: part Liszt, part Liberace. Just as he embraces fame, he collapses into his mind's awful abyss...