Word: screens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Postes Telephones Telecommunications seeded a village in Brittany with 1,500 free terminals, the operation today boasts a network of 2 million units. Minitel's success has been so astounding that the French government is attempting to export the system to the U.S. "To find oneself at a Minitel screen able to converse freely with four or five people is new -- there is no equivalent," says Francois de Valence, editor of the glossy Minitel magazine. "It's like an electronic cafe...
...Palestinians Ahmed Hasi and Farouk Salameh brought forward evidence that the Syrian government was linked to the March bombing in West Berlin of the German-Arab Friendship Society offices, which left nine people injured. The trial provided a bizarre sideshow. Screaming and gesturing wildly from behind a bulletproof screen, Hasi claimed that "voices, sounds and music" were being piped into his cell to make him confess. The frenzied defendant is the brother of Nezar Hindawi, a Jordanian who was convicted in London last month of trying to blow up an El Al airliner, allegedly with Syrian help. After the conviction...
...there is a countervailing and arresting image: of swallows on a Spanish mountaintop ("Their flight on the sky was like fine scratches on film"); of a vista in Boise, Idaho ("My aunt's couch faced the door, which stood open, the view given a sepia tone by the rusted screen"). The author offers glimpses of strange lives and then, with wisdom and art, makes them clear and permanent...
...plays later, Crimson wingback Sorbara gathered a Yohe screen in the left flat, juked past a pair of Yale defenders, and bulled his way into the endzone. Andy Maretz's extra point attempt was true, and, quickly, Harvard had moved ahead...
...SICK, BUT there's a childlike, pitiful innocence in his perversion that keeps it from being too disturbing. His third-grade whine, soulful blinking eyes, stumbling toddler steps and flapping arms all serve as a pampering screen between him and the cruel, sick world. And, just as necessarily, between his sick mind and the audience...