Word: screens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...After punching in a secret password, the home banker can display his current balances, confirm that deposits have been properly credited or call for an up-to-date listing of all the checks that have cleared. Ask a question about banking services, and the answer will be on the screen the next day. Bills from merchants who join an ever expanding roster provided by the bank can be paid electronically. "It's the next logical step after the automated teller machine," says Richard Kennedy, Citibank vice president of electronic banking. "With ATMs on nearly every corner and PCs in nearly...
...ticket guarantees a happy ending. Off the screen, there are no such guarantees...
...work for only $10,000 a week" (which is precisely the fee she settled for). This sudden affluence did not short-circuit the masses' identification with the movie stars. It merely confirmed the public's image of them as extraordinary ordinary people. They were "us" on the big screen, with every wish of fame, charm, romance, wit and avarice fulfilled. They were their own movies...
ENGAGED. Liv Ullmann, 46, Norwegian actress of stage and screen (Dangerous Moves), autobiographer (Choices) and emissary for unicef; and Donald L. Saunders, 50, Boston real estate broker; at her summer retreat near Sandefjord, on Norway's south coast. It will be the second marriage for Ullmann, who also had a long relationship with Swedish Filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, the father of her daughter Linn...
...Herring to enter a beauty contest. Chosen Miss El Paso in 1984, she became Miss Texas this year and finally Miss U.S.A., the first Hispanic and the first foreign-born contestant to win the title, which brings with it $175,000 in cash and prizes, as well as a screen test. This summer she will compete in the Miss Universe contest in Florida. "I feel like an equal combination of Mexican and American. When the Spanish went into Mexico, they went to conquer. But when the immigrants came to the U.S., they came to work together to build a great...