Word: screen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these mini-computers, many of which are as small as an office electric typewriter with a small TV screen on top, can also play games. One company at the show sold "software" packages--computer programs--for tarot cards, "Pirate Adventure," "Magic Isle," and the classic "Star Trek...
...Monty Python crew had been less inhibited, Life of Brian would have been a much funnier movie. A few incendiary jokes remain to keep the screen aflame, and to keep fans happy. But the troupe's newfound concern for order leads them to repeat a few jokes as running gags that would have been better left to explode only once...
...happy and fulfilled Fernand, Alexa and Louis are, she reduces the film's "straights" into one-dimensional jokes. Fernand's ex-wife is a case in point. She sports grotesque polyester clothes, has a permanent Pat Nixon hairdo and screams continually at her children. Her voice grates across the screen like razors on a chalk board. Yet two questions arise--if she was this horrible, why would a man of Fernand's obvious sensibility ever have married her, and second, can Serreau have no compassion at all for this lower middle class French woman whose husband leaves her with...
...trio of exchanges followed, with neither team's offense mounting any attack, thus running out the bulk of the quarter. St. John, throwing his second pass of the day, was well off the mark on a screen try to Connors. But the Crimson defense remained solid, with the cornerbacks moving up well to close down the outside...
...DRINK--but be wary. A Congressional panel has found that, despite a variety of federal programs designed to screen contaminated food, just about everything you eat contains residues of synthetic substances, which have been linked to cancer, birth defects and permanent genetic mutations...