Word: screens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attack was swift and startling, the getaway apparently clean. Shortly after midnight one morning last April, a mysterious electronic intruder interrupted a movie on HBO with a transmission of his own. GOOD EVENING HBO FROM CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT, read the message on the screen. $12.95/MONTH? NO WAY! (SHOWTIME/MOVIE CHANNEL BEWARE!). The complaint was directed at cable services that scramble their satellite-beamed signals so owners of home dishes can see programs only by buying a decoder and paying a monthly fee. The daring prank captured the nation's fancy but set in motion a high-tech manhunt. Last week, after...
Heartburn to work, the moviegoer must fall in love with Mark, as Rachel does, then fall out with a crash. So why are these opposites attracted to each other? Not because Rachel is a food writer and Mark is a Washington columnist. But because, up there on the screen, Rachel is Meryl Streep, swathed in easy glamour, and Mark is that cuddly predator Jack Nicholson. Heartburn is a movie about old- fashioned Hollywood star quality -- the sort that, say, Irene Dunne and Cary Grant radiated almost 50 years ago in another love-and-divorce comedy, The Awful Truth -- and about...
...tested go one step further. Stenotype machines are wired directly to the transcription computer, and their output is immediately flashed on the monitors in the courtroom. To review earlier testimony, a judge or lawyer simply turns to a terminal, scrolls through the transcript and finds the passage on the screen...
...cool artsy line-and-shadow shot after another flashes on the screen. Wheatfields stretch into the distance, crooked fences reflect sunlit weeds, the world becomes one large poetic image as French director Agnes Varda transforms one girl's story into a supposedly universal metaphor; life is an aimless wander, meeting people and passing through places until you die. And, believe it or not, the film's beautiful cinematography and Saundrine Bonnaire's quiet naturalness as the girl actually make this work...
Everybody's invited to a big free party on the banks of the Charles on Sept. 3. Here, you can watch a laser show where whales are flashed on a water screen; fire-eaters, jugglers and a huge marionette of John Harvard will wander among the crowds; and a 600-foot inflatable silver arch will reach across the Charles River over a barge full of Russian singers from Yale. Oh, and of course, the 23-piece women's samba band...