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...software that lets them customize just about any feature of their machines, from the color and texture of the screen display to the design of the windows, buttons, cursors and arrows that appear on it. The trend passed a milestone this fall when Berkeley Systems' After Dark, a screen-saver program that paints idle computer screens with swimming fish, flying toasters and other fanciful images, became the best-selling software product...
...Rome episode is the saver, with Italian movie clown Roberto Benigni effusively confessing his sexual adventures (with a pumpkin, a sheep, a sister-in-law) to a shocked priest. And the glimpses of the cities, beautifully shot by Frederick Elmes (Blue Velvet), suggest there might be stories to complement the ghostly landscapes. But Jarmusch gooses his fine performers to overact in close-up, as if to compensate for the paucity of event. The result is something like the ultimate minimalist international co- production. All those places to go, and hardly an inviting cab in sight...
Chugging vitamin E seems to boost the immune system in healthy old people, raising the possibility that supplements could help thwart life-threatening infections. The nutrient may also turn out to be a potent lung saver, warding off the depredations of cigarette smoke, car exhaust and other pollutants. "The effects of air pollution are chronic," says Dr. Daniel Menzel of the University of California at Irvine. "Over a lifetime people develop serious diseases like bronchitis and emphysema. We have fed animals in our labs vitamin E and have found that they have fewer lung lesions and that they live longer...
BABY SITTER. In movies as in life, this is the most traditional woman's role: hearth stirrer, home saver, raising her children and supporting her man. It ! was an emblem, we now realize, of her superiority. Modern man knows that modern woman can do the old, cool-guy stuff -- run a tractor, beat him at poker, light a cigarette in a high wind -- but that he can't manage, so artfully or efficiently, what women have done since the cave days. So there's nothing inherently retrograde about Dying Young, in which Julia Roberts performs bedside therapy on ailing Campbell...
...deal was a classic face saver. Fang acknowledged that in opposing a political system of class struggle he had violated China's constitution. He made a vague promise not to engage in activities contrary to China, though not necessarily contrary to its leadership...