Word: heaps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...opening of Gattaca, like the rest of the movie, is an eye-teaser: against a backdrop of cool blue-gray, misshapen bits of matter drift like feathers, only to collect in an unidentifiable heap. Meanwhile, the credits appear in fragments: first the letters that make up the movie title--A, T, C and, more rarely, G--followed by the rest of the name. It's then that the significance of those four letters finally dawns upon you: Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine, and Guanine, the four bases that make up our genetic code. A zoom-out to a view of Ethan Hawke...
...third recurrence of Hodgkins disease. Tartikoff in 1980 became the youngest entertainment president in network history when he took over NBC at age 30. In just a few years he took a network that was a laughing stock, and moved it to the top of the prime-time heap, by programming such shows as "L.A. Law" and "The Cosby Show." In March of this year, Tartikoff moved to the Internet and America Online to help develop the service's entertainment content. "I met with him a couple of months ago and, although thin, he seemed on the way to recovery...
Nonsense, says Mike Godwin, staff counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who argues that because all of us have equal access to it, the Net relegates libel and slander suits to the slag heap of history. "People can say bad things on the Net and circulate them to a million of their closest friends," says Godwin. "So what? The Net's a level playing field." In other words, if someone defames you, you can get online and fight right back. After all, Godwin points out, the Net has been around in one form or another for decades, and no libel...
...that shit, man! What is this bullshit?! I don't do that shit!" (As background music swells into theme from NBC's "After-school Special," Derrick throws trunk at Craig. Trunk opens and spills. Both pause, momentarily shocked at the site of the large heap of mud at the bottom of the stairs...
...HONG KONG: With only 26 days of free speech remaining before China takes control of Hong Kong, protesters erected a 26-foot statue in Hong Kong?s Victoria Park depicting a heap of 50 contorted human bodies, their eyes filled with terror. An inscription on the base of the statue, which honors the hundreds of activists killed eight years ago on June 4 in Beijing?s Tiananmen Square protests, reads: ?The old cannot kill the young forever.? City Hall had rejected an application from Democratic leaders to display the statue, saying it was contrary to what the government calls...