Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pictures" focuses on Aleksander, who decides to abandon his career and move back to Macedonia. Once there, the film elaborates on the violence initially depicted in "Words." At the end of "Pictures," the young monk is reintroduced at the same instant as when he first appeared in the film. The narrative has come full circle. The events of the entire film have led up to its beginning. Just as in the opening, it begins to rain...
...project that has been frustrated ever since F.D.R.'s death on April 12, 1945. In 1969 L.B.J. designated 27 acres along Cherry Tree Walk in the Tidal Basin-between the Jefferson and Lincoln Memorials-as a park for a Roosevelt monument. One earlier design had been ridiculed as "instant Stonehenge" and dumped in 1960. Two other attempts also faltered...
...Johnson applied for the top post in Harvard's police force and made an instant impression...
...available in U.S. autos. As of last summer, Oldsmobile buyers could opt for GPS receivers, with accompanying digitized road maps, built right into their dashboards. A motorist lost in the San Fernando Valley can tap into GPS and get an instant position on the digitized map, accurate to the length of a minivan. At its current $1,995 price, GPS is still an expensive option, but rental-car companies are very interested. As prices eventually come down, these locators could become common features in cars...
...hottest testing grounds for consumer-related technology is the supermarket. Across the continent, food stores are erupting with radio and infrared data bursts that track pricing changes, inventory and customer buying patterns. Battery-powered shelf labels that receive instant price changes via radio transmitter are currently used in 25 Edwards Super Food Stores in Connecticut; more than 40 European stores employ a solar-powered version that receives pricing data via infrared. Several large food retail operators are exploring the use of ``smart cards'' and interactive kiosks to provide shoppers with information and keep track of the buying habits of their...