Word: headroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been done by machine. Timex wristwatches, Ping golf clubs, Reebok sneakers and Volvo station wagons are all created on graphics workstations. Volvo even uses a satellite hookup to connect its design computers in California with its manufacturing computers in Gothenburg, Sweden. If a new model does not leave sufficient headroom to accommodate the average American driver, the computer in Gothenburg can spot the oversight before the car gets built...
...networks too are beginning to go after cable shows. When Cinemax's Max Headroom became a cult hit last season, ABC spirited the computer-created character away and repackaged him in a prime-time (if short-lived) series. The Fox network has picked up Showtime's critically acclaimed comedy series It's Garry Shandling's Show and has fashioned an adult version of Nickelodeon's children's game show Double Dare. NBC is carrying the cross-pollination one step further, with plans to produce a comedy series, Good Morning, Miss Bliss, for the Disney Channel. The show may also...
...version of D.O.A., but even they may find this remake engaging. Screenwriter Charles Edward Pogue, who recently updated The Fly, has a gift for polishing up pop cultural artifacts so that they shine like new. And Directors Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel, up from rock videos and Max Headroom, have found their own effective approximation of the beloved film noir style...
...QUICKEST DEPARTURE ABC's Max Headroom, which was trumpeted as the TV of the future but quickly became a show of the past...
...computer buffs at ease with the graphic virtuosity of Max Headroom, the FAA demonstration might seem primitive. But to air-traffic professionals gathered in the agency's sixth-floor "war room," it represented a technological breakthrough. Prior to last week, FAA radar data showing the location of planes flying over the U.S. could be shown only piecemeal on computer screens at one or more of the aviation agency's 20 regional control centers. Now, all that information has been merged and displayed on a single cathode-ray screen, giving the nation's air-traffic controllers an unprecedented view of overhead...