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...better suited than cable to offer the TV of the future because it will be interactive and they have more experience in dealing with such technologies. Viewers will not just passively watch television as they do now, but will have an opportunity to "talk back" and participate in quiz shows, order pizza with the TV remote control and pick which news stories they want covered in depth. That requires expertise in switched, or two-way, service, a craft practically invented by the phone companies. GTE's Cerritos cable system offers interactive exchanges between one teacher and students in six different...
...mumbles, "They're just not popular anymore." At a dinner party in a Baghdad home, the guests do not feel comfortable talking to two visiting Americans without turning the music up loud. Only when they are confident that the music conceals their words from hidden microphones will they quiz the Westerners about U.S. policy in the gulf war. Why did the U.S. stop short of taking Baghdad? they ask. Why didn't George Bush make sure Saddam Hussein was killed? They say the Iraqi people did all they could to overthrow Saddam in the aftermath of the war, but they...
...much as lower the volume of the nonstop CNN in the background while granting interviews to John Wallach, foreign affairs editor of the Hearst newspapers' Washington bureau -- not even, Wallach says, for the network's Hollywood Minute. When the name of his country was inadvertently omitted from a news quiz about nations participating in November's Middle East peace talks, Jordan's King Hussein was watching and was so irritated that he had palace officials immediately call CNN's Amman office to complain...
...this movie? Warner Bros. hopes so; the studio (whose parent company also owns TIME) helped foot JFK's $40 million tab. It is also counting on Kevin Costner, America's No. 1 homegrown movie star, to lure audiences to what is at heart a high-voltage civics quiz. Though he doesn't necessarily agree with every notion floated in the film, Costner is happy to play front man for Stone. "Oliver's a patriot," he says. "And I believe with him that the impact of this movie will be liberating. Any part of the truth -- any discussion of what could...
...QUIZ TIME, boys and girls...