Word: on-screen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Digital display screens visible above highways, warning of icy bridges ahead and detours, will become even more ubiquitous and varied. So will the long- awaited telescreen for seeing and being seen by those you talk with on the telephone. Carl Ledbetter, president of AT&T's Consumer Products division, predicts that ``in a decade, every phone will have a screen on it.'' At Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center in California, where the PC, on-screen icons and the laser printer originated, Mark Weiser, manager of the computer science laboratory, envisions a world in which flat-panel screens bearing...
Viewers push buttons on pistol grips mounted on the armests of their seats; graphics indicate when it's time to vote and what the choices are. During the voting, a running tally appears on-screen. The idea is to push your button of choice not just once--which one would think would be all that was strictly necessary--but as many times and as fast as possible. This is clearly designed to foster an atmosphere of rowdy and cheerful competition, especially as audience members are encouraged to shout at one another. At the screening I attended, Interfilm lackeys in DPMO...
Rachel E. Silverman '96 applauded the on-screen performances. "Samuel L. Jackson and Harvey Keitel are the best actors around," he said...
...told him what I saw on-screen...
Most serious European directors would never admit it -- they'd say it's a form of movie idolatry endemic only to Hollywood -- but they love to stargaze. They will put an attractive actress on-screen for 1 1/2 hours and mostly . . . just . . . watch . . . her. She poses at a window, she listens to the phone ring; in a moment of high agitation she may drag on a Gauloise. A vision of dyspeptic distress, she is a modernist pinup for the monastic voyeur behind the camera. When the woman is lovely, pouty Juliette Binoche, and the director is Krzysztof Kieslowski, the picture...