Word: screens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...play centered on conversations between the recently deceased and their living friends. The voices of Merrill, Doyle, and Hooten combined with dramatic lighting effects, a backdrop of dark colored trees on a silk screen, and the voice of an unseen spirit from backstage...
...displaying science fiction, somewhere between Asimov and Bradbury. But the popular success of Ballard's Empire of the Sun (1984), an autobiographical novel about an English boy's coming of age in Shanghai during the World War II Japanese occupation, was followed last year by Steven Spielberg's acclaimed screen adaptation. Thanks to this double-barreled triumph, Ballard has been transformed from a well-kept cult secret into something resembling a household name, with the luxury and burden of knowing that his next book would generate widespread curiosity among a general audience. The Day of Creation, his eleventh novel...
...Rabbit? in June and Oliver and Company at Thanksgiving time. And coming to a mall near you is a Disney Store in which the company will sell thousands of licensed products, ranging from Rock Around the Mouse records to software for drawing Mickey and his friends on a computer screen...
...have been just around the corner for 30 years. Now they are finally starting to appear in U.S. homes and offices. Since last fall, Mitsubishi Electric of America has sold 64,000 of its new VisiTel units, a $400 device that looks like a TV with a 4 1/2-in. screen but also has a built- in camera lens and a cord that plugs into a telephone jack. Callers who pose in front of a VisiTel and push the button marked "send" can swap black- and- white "snapshots" of each other over the phone lines -- provided, of course, that the people...
...sets are excellent, whether they be the jungle behind the movie screen or the moving grocery shelves. Costumes are also impressive and range from two outfitted baseball teams to the dancing pieces of brick wall. The music, written by Harvard undergraduate composers, works well...