Word: screens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fast -- four times as quick as the original. It is loud -- with stereo sound. It is expandable -- with six plug-in slots for peripheral devices. And for the first time on a Macintosh screen, it has color selected from a palette of 16 million hues and displayed on a 13-inch monitor. This week Apple Computer unveiled its Mac II, a spiffy unit priced at $3,899 (monitor not included). Yet the Mac II is most notable for a departure from Apple's previous products: with the proper accessories, it can run the huge library of software written...
...Oliver North, asked her to work weekends at the National Security Council, she readily agreed. Hall, 27, a strikingly pretty blond with blue-green eyes, often turned down modeling jobs because she was afraid they might interfere with her secretarial duties. Hall even rejected the chance to take a screen test because she was just too busy. Said a friend: "She was a good employee, and a good employee does what her employer wants...
...made before he arrived. The 18-minute film that introduced the President's speech at the convention made Reagan himself cry when he first saw it. The one that introduced Nancy was even more touching, ending with his tribute to her. When Nancy went onstage, Reagan appeared on the screen behind her, watching her on his hotel TV, and the crowd shouted and gestured her around to see him and hug the airy apparition above her. It was the consummation of the weird political transaction that was the Dallas convention...
Labyrinthine tales like this (based on William Hjortsberg's 1978 novel Falling Angel) rarely make it to the screen, for a simple reason: the significant action has occurred a dozen years before, so the entire plot must be exposition pocked with explosions of violence. Parker, an itchy director (Midnight Express, Fame) with a bang-on sense of textbook timing, occasionally tries to pump up his flashback talkathon with chase scenes that distract from the film's mood. But he has located a chic, grim style for the story. Garish, ominous colors flash vividly across his monochrome palette. The streets keep...
...pictures offered this week, Dewitt wonders why anyone would go to see St. Elmo's Fire (Science Center C), an idiotic film about the conflicts of several young people just out of college. Along with a painfully awful script, St. Elmo's features the undistinguished acting of such screen luminaries as Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Andrew McCarthy and, of course, Judd Nelson. One of the ludicrous features of this flick is that it is billed as an "ensemble" piece, ensemble being used here to signify several uninteresting storylines which are connected with no common theme and only the most superficial...