Word: scheming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...grand scheme of time, 729 minutes is not very substantial. It's just over 12 hours. That's only half...
Despite these omissions, Ward's version of heaven is stunning on purely visual terms. Eduardo Serra, the cinematographer who gave The Wings of the Dove a lush color scheme resembling fresh paint, goes further by setting the early scenes of heaven actually in a painting. The imagery is banal--must the perfect place be out of a paint-by-numbers watercolor?--but richly presented. The art direction suggests that PolyGram spent an inordinate amount of money on the film...
...populated areas by 2001. Then there's Angel Technologies, a privately held firm that envisions bouncing signals off a squadron of high-altitude planes circling above metropolitan areas. (Finding pilots may be a problem.) Angel execs say they'll be able to provide commercial Net access by 2000. Another scheme, from Sky Station, would employ blimps the size of football fields, tethered 14 miles above large cities. Last July, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) okayed the radio frequencies that the company will require...
DIED. JUNIUS KELLOGG, 71, incorruptible cager who as a star collegiate center in 1951 exposed a point-shaving scheme that rocked the sport; in New York City. Kellogg, Manhattan College's first black basketball player, notified his coach after being asked to participate in what was revealed to be a widespread plot to fix games at seven colleges, a fateful decision that led to numerous players' arrests. Kellogg joined the Harlem Globetrotters after graduation, but a 1954 car accident left him paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair. He went on to popularize and coach wheelchair basketball...
...caused the poor start. Harvard didn't score its first goals until the third game of the season, when sophomore midfielder Ryan Kelly found the net against Columbia. As a result of the scoring drought, Harvard Coach Steve Locker has inserted some new wrinkles into the team's offensive scheme in preparation for the Yale game...