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...voice and data traffic, the future is virtually here--and it looks astonishingly lucrative. Malone sees an imminent convergence of TV, telephone and computer services--long the grail of digital thinkers--that will allow customers to access all three separately or at once, simply by aiming and clicking a hand-held device at a TV set. Of course, this convergence has seemed "imminent" to Malone for the past half-decade, but new technology--most of it based on the Internet--seems likely to deliver, finally, on these rich promises. And Malone, among others, is imagining quite a future: "Would...
Even on the level of scale, Walker distorts the niceties of hand-held, 19th century bourgeois silhouettes. The near full-scale images in her surreal world aren't genteel keepsakes or familiar racial epithets. Walker's anti-stereotypes wouldn't make good logos on syrup bottles or tidy punch-lines to racist jokes. Rather, the very icons designed to suppress and stigmatize blacks return magnified and grotesque to haunt our collective conscience. Most shocking of all, the pickaninnies have appropriated the garb of paper silhouettes, the charming craft of their mistress' reaction...
When it comes to restaurants, there are those who want their romance flashy--red velvet curtains, fancy lingerie and hand-held fans hanging on the walls and waiters with thick accents who call you a "beautiful senorita...
...plugging a hand-held computer into a slot on the dashboard, the driver can review appointments and look up phone numbers and addresses...
This fall, the Brattle showcases Godard's visual masterpieces every Thursday night, offering up a feast of his experiments in spastic editing, hand-held shots, and stories about outsiders who pop up in each others' lives like secret figures in video games. The repertoire ranges from gangster spoof to existentialist poem. Breathless, Alphaville, Weekend, Contempt and Pierrot le Fou, among Godard's most famous films, are all featured, in addition to many of his lesser known works...