Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...line so the two leaders could communicate directly during crises, and negotiated treaties to contain their arsenals and reduce fears of a sneak attack. India and Pakistan, which have fought three wars in the past 50 years, have no such arms-control measures in place. "MAD requires a level of rationality that we may not have in this region," notes a State Department official...
...routine comedy that attends being father of the bride. Here's a joke I've been living on since the date was set: "I've learned the phrase 'And that's a very good price.' I ask them, 'What's a bad price?'" It earns the appropriate level of laughter...
...compatible with accelerator cards that deliver superior 3-D effects. They also tend to require Olympian amounts of RAM. SimCity 3000, will need a minimum of 32 MB, though the payoff is splendidly rendered, 3-D, skyscraper-bejeweled cities that one can zoom in on, right down to the level of joggers on the sidewalks, and redesign like God or even Mayor Rudy Giuliani...
...work, everything is staked on sensation and desire. His aim was not to argue coherence but to go for the strongest level of feeling. He conveyed it with tremendous plastic force, making you feel the weight of forms and the tension of their relationships mainly by drawing and tonal structure. He was never a great colorist, like Matisse or Pierre Bonnard. But through metaphor, he crammed layers of meaning together to produce flashes of revelation. In the process, he reversed one of the currents of modern art. Modernism had rejected storytelling: what mattered was formal relationships. But Picasso brought...
Spielberg's most important contribution to modern movies is his insight that there was an enormous audience to be created if old-style B-movie stories were made with A-level craftsmanship and enhanced with the latest developments in special effects. Consider such titles as Raiders of the Lost Ark and the other Indiana Jones movies, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. and Jurassic Park. Look also at the films he produced but didn't direct, like the Back to the Future series, Gremlins, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Twister. The story lines were the stuff of Saturday serials...