Word: screen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...honestly say that this is the first team that has beaten me from up top without a screen," said the shell-shocked goalie. "Those guys were just blowing the ball...
During the tournament, Berliner communicates with his electronic protege via a laptop computer patched into a telephone line. While Hitech "thinks," Berliner watches the moves being considered as they scroll rapidly down the laptop's screen. In one second, Hitech can analyze as many as 160,000 possibilities. "Hitech," beams Berliner through thick-framed glasses, "is two orders of magnitude smarter than any other computer chess player in the world...
Astrology has something frowsy about it. It comes to the door in hair curlers. It looks through the screen with squint-shrewd eyes. The caller who rang the doorbell stares in at crackpot mystery in the half-light, and senses + there a kind of disreputable plausibility. The dogs on the porch get restless and slink away. A universe of surreal connections unfolds...
Wings of Desire works hard to be both an essay and a love story, a mural and an intimate portrait. To savor this film, the viewer must work hard too. But when the artists behind the screen and the angels in the audience meet, it's like a smoke and coffee: fantastic...
BEST known for her roles in such movies as The Year of Living Dangerously, which won her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and the screen adaptation of Henry James' The Bostonians, Hunt has spent much of her career on the stage...