Word: realm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...noir drama. It probably would have required the dark glamour of period conventions and convictions to sustain it. Director Irwin Winkler succeeds mainly in conveying his own edginess, and screenwriter Richard Price cannot seem to get his people grounded either in reality or in a metaphorically persuasive fictional realm. The result is a nervous and very distancing movie...
...outdone, Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton has traveled to Miami's Little Havana to seek Cuban-American money and Mas' support. In Congress the foundation was the major force behind the creation of Radio and TV Marti, the U.S.-sponsored propaganda stations beamed into Cuba. Outside the legislative realm, the group won the right to prescreen Cuban immigrants headed for the U.S. from third countries, and last year it rammed through regulations limiting the money Cuban exiles can send to relatives back home...
...even a minor--concert is not this simple. It requires planning, negotiating skills, a sense of what music or comedy acts to pick and the support of a nebulous undergraduate population whose music tastes change weekly. But having a successful concert on this campus is not beyond the realm of possibility. And while it may sound far-fetched, having a regular program of varied entertainment (i.e., more than one event per year) is not beyond our scope either...
...coming developments will take the video revolution to a new realm. Fiber-optic cable will bring hundreds, even thousands, of channels into the home. And interactive computer technology will give formerly passive viewers almost total control over what they see, when they see it and what they do with it. People will be able to call up on their screen virtually everything the culture produces, from the latest Hollywood movie to lessons in chess, from an old episode of The Twilight Zone to this morning's newspaper, custom- edited for individual readers...
...want to raise government above the murky realm of speculation, conjecture and broken promises and into the light of science," he said...