Word: g3
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shake up the company since he took over last year as interim CEO, but even the most devoted fans of the Mac may be shocked to hear what he's doing to their famous Apple logo: he's getting rid of the rainbow stripes. The new PowerBook G3 will feature an all-white Apple, and the one on the new iMac will be blue. Future Apple logos on the Mac will be white or another solid...
...this issue simply too pedestrian and unsophisticated to be a cause for concern? --Andrew Gossen, G3...
...first Godfather films sketched a history of the Mafia as a cracked- mirror reflection of American industry. One hoped G3 might pit the Corleones against the bad boys of the drug trade: the old Italians vs. blacks and Hispanics, rustic chivalry vs. cutthroat capitalism. Instead, Coppola, who wrote the screenplay with Puzo, sends Michael on a side trip to Rome and Sicily...
There is some colorful conniving: who'd have guessed that an international cartel fatally poisoned Pope John Paul I? But G3 never persuades one of the urgency of its maxim that "finance is a gun, and politics is knowing when to pull the trigger." With all its boardroom bickering, the plot is a gun that shoots mostly blanks. G3 is too faithful to the deliberate pacing of the first two films: the slow walking into a dark room, the silence surrounding the threats. For two hours the movie labors up the winding path of its story, wheezing like...
...fidelity has its rewards. Remember how, in the other Godfathers, nearly every religious ceremony (baptism, festival, funeral) is accompanied by a murder? As in the first film, G3 has a spectacular payoff: accounts of honor settled with elaborate vengefulness. As in the second film, a fearful price is paid for power, and Michael is left alone to consider the cost...