Word: screen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Experts question, however, whether bargain-conscious consumers will flock to an improved IBM PC. They feel that Big Blue may have to pare prices even further before many buyers will forsake the inexpensive IBM look-alikes. Boot up and watch the results on the screen of your choice...
...ABOUT MEN. It's about women. It's about love. It's about sex. It's about commitment." Covering all major areas of interest for anyone between the ages of 10 and 100, the ad copy for About Last Night, the screen adaptation of the David Mamet play Sexual Perversity in Chicago should, in theory, attract the masses into watching the romance of Danny (Rob Lowe) and Debbie (Demi Moore) flicker across the big screen...
...help stem the flood of telephone traffic. Borland International runs a forum on the CompuServe network where customers' questions are answered by either the company's technicians or other CompuServe subscribers. Lotus and Microsoft fill their disks with elaborate help messages that can be called up to the screen the moment a problem arises. Software Publishing, creator of the easy- to-use PFS filing and word-processing programs, refers callers back to their dealers...
...that the "American people, if they know all the facts, will never make a mistake." It was a talent he learned in an earlier career. "The very soul of show business is communicating. There's an old rule in Hollywood that when your face is up there on the screen in a close-up, if you don't believe the line you're speaking, the audience will know it, and they won't believe it either." He still takes an oddly detached view of his no-longer-new job. "Maybe some people have 'become' President, but I've never thought...
Still, says Lange, a friendly intimacy has developed. "No one has any desperate need to be center stage. We've all been there." She notes: "I don't believe in living and becoming the character off screen. I find that a little sophomoric. But your mannerisms and speech are affected. The two older sisters, for example, are tremendously protective toward Babe, little Babe. Diane and I treat Sissy the same way." Spacek says that Babe "taps a real part of me. The side of me that's Babe got me into a lot of trouble in school. Teachers couldn...