Word: onscreen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...playing computer games is among your supreme joys, the $3,148 Presario 8712 is for you. With 6 MB of memory to enhance video quality and an 8X CD-ROM drive, everything onscreen looks better. The JBL Pro Premium speakers and subwoofer deliver terrific sound for playing such included titles as Descent II, MechWarrior 2 and Yukon Trail. The 3.8-GB hard drive gives you enough room to load dozens of programs, and the Pentium-200 processor and 32 MB of ram offer enough power to run any game on the market...
Videoconferencing has moved out of the boardroom and into the den, thanks to this low-priced unit that squeezes a video and an audio signal over regular phone lines. Of course, moving up the technology ladder has its price: with your mug constantly onscreen, you'll need to remember not to roll your eyes in dismay until after you hang up the phone. ($449.99; Creative Labs...
...seems a lost work of Chekhov's. It's a handsome artifact, though, on its $5 million budget, and gives star treatment to Imogen Stubbs, who is Nunn's wife. "It's a welcome break from the American kind of film realism," she says of Twelfth Night. "When acting onscreen, you're often asked not to act; you're exploited for some quality the director sees in you. But in Shakespeare, you are forced to act--to tell the audience, 'This is a character. This is a play...
Though he keeps attacking his opponent as "liberal, liberal, liberal," Bob Dole cleverly staked out a position to the left of rival Bill Clinton last week--on the TV screen, that is. In the annals of televised presidential debates, geography is destiny. The candidate who appeared onscreen to the left of his major-party opponent in the first debate has typically won the election. The one exception: Ronald Reagan...
...trio, Hawn's character clings most tenaciously to youth, but the actress herself says she wasn't worried about showing her years onscreen. "What are you trying to protect?" she asks. "A career? A perception? I mean, we've been around the block a hundred times. What the hell?" Keaton agrees: "I can't play the younger babe. I was just happy to have the part, and I'm not kidding...