Word: screens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movie, all right, but the wrong kind, the first reel of an old Joan Crawford weeper. But in Cecilia's movie-house refuge, a couple of synapses in her mind clap hands, and her sweet, silly dreams take life. Tom Baxter suddenly starts talking to her from the screen, then hops down off it to escort her out the back door into reality...
...fade-outs?" But if transfiguration delights those blessed by it, it confounds those it fails to touch. One of the reasons Cecilia loves movies is that the people in them are so "well spoken." But with the mainspring of their plot removed, the characters Tom leaves behind on the screen start squabbling among themselves, all suavity lost...
ADOPTING THE SLOGAN of Tyler's opposition, "Zimmerman flew and Tyler knew," Jimmy proceeds to emblazon it everywhere from the big screen at Shea Stadium to the provebial horse's behind. Each of these public service messages is signed "Turk 1821." Lynch's nom de plume inspired by his brother's nickname and badge number. Clever Jim manages to deface countless subway cars, buses, public monuments, and even Mayor Tyler's own limosine before getting caught...
...film is not entirely devoid of memorable performances. Making a cameo appearance in the role of a tee-shirt is the Crimson itself, later joined by the video screen at Shea Stadium which perform, all sorts of video acrobatics. Considered in the context of the other performances in the film, both the tee-shirt and the big screen are possible Oscar contenders...
Economic necessity, not serendipity, will push libraries into the computer age. Electronic data are easier to store and cheaper to move from place to place than printed material. On the other hand, most readers prefer browsing through books and magazines to reading little green words on a video screen. And nobody seems eager to take on the Herculean task of transcribing into bits and bytes the vast body of knowledge already stored in printed volumes. "The book is here to stay," says New York Public Library President Vartan Gregorian, who presided over that library's computerization. "What we're doing...