Word: heyes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know he's the star of a popular 24-hour soap opera. As Truman, Jim Carrey inhabits director Peter Weir's bogus universe with a heroic gentility. But will Carrey's rowdy fans skip Truman? Or will the audience that might appreciate an adult parable stay home because, hey, it's just a Jim Carrey movie? One industry savant says not to worry: this canny film will reach both groups and gross $200 million...
...Hey, guys, how's this for a twist? Let's take the end of the world seriously. Geez, how square can you get? No postmodernist, pre-apocalyptic ironies; a not-entirely-improbable cataclysmic threat--a giant comet hurtling earthward with no funny aliens anywhere in sight; special effects that serve the story plausibly; and a certain largely understated courage, as representative examples of humankind attempt to resist or try to accept the awful fate awaiting them. There's something curiously refreshing in the soberly inspirational way Deep Impact embraces the conventions of the old-fashioned disaster movie. You find yourself...
...Elaine: Hey, George--still got shrinkage issues...
...bugs have been fixed; we'll see.) Then there's Win 98's gluttonous appetite for hard-drive space: if you upgrade, be prepared to surrender around 70 megabytes. But for serious PC users, that's a small price to pay to keep pace with the ever improving Windows. Hey, these days it's almost as good...
...what about the year 2000 Problem? All sorts of damage can be done, from power grids to prisoner databases. An Australian government official recently acknowledged the "potential for significant, international economic and social disruption" if certain government agency systems are not corrected. This sounds like a revolution to me. Hey, maybe this is good...