Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would do little to improve the privacy of ordinary citizens. Instead, it would make it easier for the government to keep track of our activities. Rather than secure a court order to tap phone lines--as they now must--law enforcement agents using the new technology could have instant access to detailed information on the so-called "transactional" nature of phone calls. As Jerry Berman, executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told The New York Times recently, "It will be possible to develop a life-size portrait about you as a person...
...what Koestenbaum admits is a gay phenomenon much larger than that of the opera queen. Her life (more, specifically, her affair with Aristotle Onassis) assumed tabloid proportions; she was mainstream enough to be mentioned in Marilyn Monroe movies; and her personality, both bitchy and warm in practically the same instant, is well reputed. He life, in short, was an opera unto itself. In the interview, Koestenbaum agrees that the dead Callas seems even more of a cultural power than she did while she was alive, due to the explosive popularity of her recordings (both legal and pirated...
More than anything else in Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List, this potent, poignant scene illuminates the moral stupor of the totalitarian heart. And the performance has made an instant star of an actor previously known only in Britain. Already Ralph Fiennes (the name is Welsh and rhymes with safe signs) has a Golden Globe Award, a New York Film Critics Circle citation and, as of last week, an Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his work in Schindler's List. In September moviegoers will see him as Charles van Doren, that fallen savant of '50s TV, in Robert...
Events prove much more mundane, but events aren't the issue. That instant of confusion says as much about love as anything that has ever been put on film. As it happens, Laura was not murdered but was away for the weekend; the dead girl turns out to be a model from the ad agency which employs Laura. The confusion came about because the victim was wearing Laura's clothes when she had her face blown...
...House ran with almost military precision, even when its direction was unclear, Duffy says, while Clinton and his staff have a strong sense of direction but are constantly rushing to catch up with themselves. In person, Duffy finds the two Presidents quite dissimilar. Despite Clinton's reputation for seeking instant intimacy, he is far less accessible than Bush, who loved to schmooze with reporters...