Word: screens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PEOPLE! Single Rooms, the View, the Food, the Tower, the weight room, the big screen T.V., the carpeting, the "Concreatery" (the grill), milk and cookies, weekly open houses, the Herlihys, the "Concrete Abstract," "Mathering Heights," the tutors, the staff, the uncrowded suites, even the free standing stairway in the house library. But most of all, the house spirit...
Peggy Berk, a Manhattan communications consultant, starts her day by turning on her modem-equipped computer, dialing into the GTE Telemail network and reading on her screen any overnight telexes from her clients. Tapping a few keys, she scans the electronic version of USA Today before switching to another network, the Source, and perusing the A.P. and U.P.I. news wires. "I can get along without my morning toast and coffee," she says, "but I can't leave home without going on-line first...
There are no speeding-car chases or high-tech weapons, just Middle Ages state- of-the-art horse and armor. Still, in her screen debut, Deborah Leigh Moore felt a definite kinship with the dapper 007 portrayed by her dad Roger Moore. "I fight the Tafurs and the Saracens with sword and dagger, and I joust in tournaments with a lance on horseback," says Deborah, who has just been filming Lionheart on location in Portugal. "I feel like I am playing the feminine side of the sort of thing my father used to do." A generation and a few centuries...
...that does not console the Purple people, one of the evening's best musical numbers might. While Irene Cara sang what was called a hymn to the losers, a list flashed on the screen of other motion pictures that had failed in the Best Picture category. They included Citizen Kane, Tootsie, The Wizard of Oz and, alas, Spielberg...
...explore the clutch of emotions unleashed by the painful first love of a young boy and girl in Edwardian England. A Room with a View is that exploration, Forster's sketch of love and anguish sparked on the Tuscan hills and resolved in the English countryside. In the new screen version by the Ismail Merchant-James Ivory team (Heat and Dust, The Bostonians), we are treated to a respectful and intimate adaptation of Forster's touching novel...