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...romp-arama in Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, upcoming films cover a range of genres. Austin Powers is more shagadelic than ever. Adam Sandler plays--surprise!--another doof. Julia Roberts fans will want to catch her first in Notting Hill opposite Hugh Grant, then in Runaway Bride with Richard Gere in--surprise!--a romance that has nothing to do with millionaires or prostitutes. It gets better. Will Smith kicks off July Fourth weekend with the wacky Wild Wild West. Need a new superhero? Try Mystery Men, with Ben Stiller and Geoffrey Rush as defunct superheroes. Need a testosterone boost...
Since the first broadcast of the groundbreaking 1977 miniseries Roots, Hollywood, in such films as Glory, Amistad and Beloved, has helped depict a more complex picture of race relations in early America. Combined with new literature and scholarship on the African American experience such as John Hope Franklin's Runaway Slaves, the companion to the four-part, six-hour PBS series Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery, and Microsoft's CD-ROM encyclopedia, the Encarta Africana, there is respect and understanding for the lives of African ancestors...
...been like a wild ride on a runaway train. Ten dizzying decades that revolutionized business, communications, entertainment and the way we live...
...from the book, and all but the most self-serving of Carson's attackers were backing rapidly toward safer ground. In their ugly campaign to reduce a brave scientist's protest to a matter of public relations, the chemical interests had only increased public awareness. Silent Spring became a runaway best seller, with international reverberations. Nearly 40 years later, it is still regarded as the cornerstone of the new environmentalism. Carson was not a born crusader but an intelligent and dedicated woman who rose heroically to the occasion. She was rightly confident about her facts as well as her ability...
...Nintendo 64. UltraHLE, or High Level Emulator, became a hot property at a time when Nintendo was starting to claw market share back from its larger rival, Sony. Now every college kid with a speedy T1 Internet connection could theoretically download all 26 megabytes of the holiday season's runaway hit, Legend of Zelda. UltraHLE, says Nintendo software manager Jim Merrick, is "like a virus--once it's out, it's everywhere...