Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...light of the potential benefits which exist for the musicians themselves, it is unwise for the music industry to continue their frontal assault on MP3s. Attempts to vanquish MP3 production and distribution completely are fated to fail, for the system is already wildly popular and widely in use. Attacks on individual sites are similarly futile; not only is it often difficult to track down a site's creator, but it is nearly impossible to prosecute because laws out-lawing the practice are currently nonexistent...
...Besides his First Amendment rights victory in the Supreme Court, Flynt was few other accolades to boost his reputation as a defender of public officials. But even more pertinent than his degrading pornographic magazines is Flynt's reckless disregard for the truth. A bit of Flynt's history sheds light on his disrespect for the public and the powers of the media. In 1983, Flynt claimed he had evidence that government officials had threatened John DeLorean's life if he did not participate in their cocaine operation. But Flynt later admitted that the audiotape was as "Fake...
...used to be very good at doing nothing. I'd go for a walk nowhere in particular, lie on the beach, look at the clouds. If I were feeling ambitious, I might light a cigar...
...dialogue has the timing of a TV sitcom and the lonely echo of a prison cell. "Is there anyone you'd like to phone?" Alice is asked in the hospital. "I don't know anyone," she replies. Marber, who doubles as the director, places his characters in pools of light surrounded mostly by darkness. Their isolation is symbolized further by the play's most startling and curious scene: Dan lures Larry into a bogus rendezvous by posing as a sluttish girl in an Internet chat room, their cyberencounter typed out on a giant computer screen onstage...
...scaled-down command post. If computer screens in Russia go dark or mistakenly signal a U.S. missile launch, their team here can flash the word home over a hot line that it?s a false alarm before someone over there hits the attack button. The Russians, especially in light of Kosovo, have been cool to the proposal, but NORAD intends to go ahead and build the facility, which could be shared with other countries. ?If they get interested months from now, we want to be ready,? explains Navy Commander David B. Knox. ?It?s important enough that both sides...