Word: multimedia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bother of planning or decorating. Some builders, like Stephen Chefan, 52, furnish the houses down to the last table cloth and teaspoon, fill the bookshelves and stock the bar. Architecturally, the dwellings are a kind of California contemporary. Most come with pools, Jacuzzi rooms, electronic security systems and multimedia entertainment rooms. Says Albert Segal, who moved to the Gold Coast from Charlotte, N.C., after retiring as chairman of the Pic'n Pay shoe store chain: "All we did was move in with our toothbrushes...
...Republic of China's treasured antiquities, is the Federal Express Pavilion, designed by New York's Leonard Levitan (La Ronde amusement center of Expo 67, U.S. Bicentennial exhibit in the Soviet Union in 1976). It features a laser-beam-light composition in the night sky and a multimedia show about communications that is entertaining and thought provoking...
...Soldaten was conceived in 1958 as a gigantic, multimedia opera designed for Zimmermann's vision of a "theater of the future." The composer projected a vast structure containing twelve stages; all the stages would simultaneously present action set in the past, present or future, thus abolishing the traditional dramatic unities of time and space. But officials of the Cologne Opera, which had commissioned the piece, convinced Zimmermann that his idea was unperformable, so he scaled it down to the proportions of a conventional opera house-though he retained a split-level stage and the use of film...
...Bergen, her progress from dithery housewife putting fantasies on paper to multimedia celebrity, living out the American fantasy of success, is gorgeously bold. Her bravura is entirely selfconscious, but this once bland beauty has become one of the screen's most arresting comedians. Somehow she manages to stay likable-maybe even lovable-no matter how her character uses and abuses friends and relatives on her way to the top, which is defined here as a good old-fashioned suite in the Waldorf Towers...
...line for Surgeon General. Koop made his name in the early 1970s with his operations to separate Siamese twins, but has since become known as an evangelical Christian who crusades against abortion. Over the past two years, Koop, 64, has toured the country with a 17-hour multimedia presentation called "Whatever Happened to the Human Race?" It denounces abortion, the loss of family values, euthanasia and infanticide. Says he: "The first domino to fall was abortion on demand, and it has split the country as has no other issue since the practice of slavery...