Word: geeking
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Once or twice a decade, the geek visionaries at Industrial Light & Magic concoct a special effect that wows even jaded, high-tech-savvy audiences. The latest is morphing, as in metamorphosis, a technique that reduces a film image to a numerical code that a computer can manipulate almost endlessly. One image can melt into another, for example, as when Linda Hamilton turns into Robert Patrick in Terminator 2, right, or when disparate races, genders and ages blend together in Michael Jackson's video Black or White...
...which prides itself on how quickly it can knock the stuffing out of those who would run for President, has gone into a deep swoon over his candidacy, from which it will sooner or later recover. For the moment, reporters seem entranced by Clinton's persona: a good-government geek saved by a self-deprecating sense of humor. As chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council, a group that wants to yank the party back to the center, Clinton's idea of a well-spent weekend is one given to working on welfare and education reform. Yet when he was introduced...
Brenda and Brandon had a hard time getting adjusted to West Beverly High, but they quickly made the friendships that will last as long as the show is on the air: Dylan is the loner; Steve, the jock; Kelly, the prom queen; Donna, the air head; David, the lovable geek; Andrea, the brilliant but sexually-repressed school newspaper editor. And, being from Beverly Hills, they are all beautiful people...
...into a race riot, Jungle Fever is really two movies in one: the first hour an essay on various volatile issues, the second a dramatization of how these issues inform and ruin ordinary lives. Lee tries hard to spread the intensity, and the ignorance, judiciously. He lets a geek chorus of Italian- American guys in Bensonhurst blame black men for everything from Central Park rapes to the mongrelization of jockdom. "They took our sports," one fellow grouses, "baseball, football, basketball, boxing. What do we got left? Hockey...
...science track in college even though he was brilliant at its disciplines and scored 1580 out of a possible 1600 on his college boards. "All my teachers were disappointed that I didn't go to M.I.T.," he says, "but I really wanted to avoid the stereotype of the science geek." Shim chose to major in government, and has been accepted at Harvard Law School...