Word: screens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than other nations, they have realized that in a world of instant communication, countries have no place to hide. This morning's news from London is the basis for a business decision in Hong Kong this afternoon. Money flows around the world as a blip on a computer screen. These countries know they must find ways to compete effectively in the global marketplace; the alternative is stagnation. Rather than closing themselves in and trying to be self-sufficient, they have aggressively gone after a world market and become players in a global economy...
Despite all the favorable publicity, including a Time magazine cover story, you doubt a movie about space creatures can affect you emotionally. And the last time you screamed when you saw an alien on the screen you were 12 years old. But the movie is credible and terrifying. Just ask the eight people I knocked heads with under the seat...
...other jokes are haggard, forced and stupid. Jokes about nerdy guys trying to get marijuana went out with the polyester leisure suit. And chuckles about working women who are incurably shy of men ended after Dinah Shore finally got Cary Grant to marry her on the silver screen...
...Paint Your Wagon (1951), Camelot (1960) and the show many credit as the genre's best, My Fair Lady (1956). Those lush romantic period pieces became big-budget Hollywood movies, usually with scripts by Lerner, and the two created another nostalgic costume epic, Gigi (1958), directly for the screen. Their style of show eventually went out of fashion. Their songs never did: Thank Heaven for Little Girls, If Ever I Would Leave You, They Call the Wind Maria, I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face. After Loewe retired in 1960, Lerner collaborated with composers including Burton Lane, Andre Previn, Leonard...
...kitchens will be marvels where a lobster souffle can be created along with hamburgers. Movies can be shown, TV tuned in, stereo piped through the entire 187-ft. cabin, phone calls made to Katmandu. The President will be able to scan his welcoming crowds on the TV screen as the plane taxis up. He will exit on special stairs from the forward door, an elegant pulpit high above his waiting subjects...