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...people see it in sparkling digital clarity on wraparound screens in ultraswank theaters; others watch the same movie the same day on an 8-ft.-wide screen in their home media center; still others get it transmitted instantly through their computer, iPod or cell phone. It's a looking-glass scenario that could happen in a future near you--if the people who finance and exhibit Hollywood movies want...
...Oscar night last week, though, the looking glass was not a crystal ball but a rearview mirror. Hollywood's gentry celebrated the past--the misty history of cinema, evoked with montages of ancient genres and deceased artistes. From the films honored, you would hardly have noticed that under the academy members' smartly shod feet, a seismic shift was taking place...
...didn't have was an inclination to spend half the morning in a doctor's waiting room. Instead, she went to Cub Foods, her local supermarket. Specifically, she dropped by a tiny clinic nestled beside the store's pharmacy, just across from the cigarette counter. There, behind a frosted-glass partition, a nurse practitioner examined Hillesheim, typing her vital signs and symptoms into a computer before giving her a prescription to treat a sinus infection. The visit took 20 minutes and cost $59. Hillesheim forked over $25, the co-pay required by her insurer. "You don't have to plan...
...Fastow sat calmly on the front corner of his seat. He filled his cheeks with air and blew them out. He mashed his lips together between questions. His face often fell into a smirk. If there was a question he didn?t want to answer, he poured himself a glass of water first. But by the end of the second day of cross-examination, he looked worn out. The more tired he got, the more polite he became. His brow was furrowed and he said that he was a little confused. His answers were shorter, and he said "sir" without...
...includes watercolors composed by other early masters of the medium: John Singer Sargent and John La Farge. Freshmen will recognize the bold colors and strong forms in La Farge’s “Chinese Pi-tong” (1879) as they are also apparent in his stained glass “Battle Window” which can be found in Annenberg...