Word: screen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rather has always been considered a "hot" presence. Last week, however, Rather's colleagues at CBS were debating whether their intense, somewhat melodramatic anchor had grown a few degrees too hot after he angrily walked off the set of the CBS Evening News, leaving the network with a blank screen...
...paraphrase that famous remark about the weather, everyone talks about the ozone layer, but no one does anything about it. Though evidence has mounted that man-made compounds called chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are destroying the screen of ozone-enriched air that helps shield the earth from the sun's dangerous radiation, the world's nations have been slow to develop a consensus on how to cope with the problem...
...photography and extensive use of time-lapse technique are not the only things that gives Fricke's film its experiential quality. Because the film is shown on the over-sized OMNIMAX screen--76 feet in diameter and tilted at a 30 degree angle to the horizon--Chronos practically surrounds you. Furthermore, the curvature of the screen warps your perception of the world. Shots of a canyon floor from a high mountain peak are somewhat dizzying and flat deserts appear curved and other-worldly...
...Kremlin harbors the opposite suspicion: that R. and D. will turn out to be a smoke screen for an all-out program to deploy SDI. As Roald Sagdeyev, director of Moscow's Space Research Institute, told TIME, "We need some kind of insurance policy on SDI; otherwise, what is advertised innocently as a testing program could lead to rapid deployment of a full-scale system. Unrestrained SDI testing would confront our military planners with the requirement of more offensive systems, not less. It's that simple...
...megahome trend: it often allows them to sell twice as many goodies to one homeowner. Dual "entertainment centers," including one for the children, are increasingly common in today's luxury homes. Both centers may be outfitted with records and audio-and videotapes, along with movie and big-screen-TV equipment. At the Blackhawk luxury-house complex in Danville, Calif., one homeowner installed a separate entertainment center with a TV and stereo in the guest suite of his 10,000-sq.-ft. Normandy-style chateau, for those times when his guests might want to relax in style without their hosts...