Word: screens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Chase, Md., home. At first it scared her. "I used to think the computer would break if I did something wrong. The first time I used it, I was a nervous wreck, and my son Paul said, 'Don't worry, Mom--it won't break.'" He made her a screen saver that says SARA, QUEEN OF COMPUTERS!!! ALMOST. She signed up for a computer class at a local senior center. Before long, Trabish had sent e-mail to her family: "I think I am going to the head of the class...So far, I am one lesson ahead...
Kamen came to the world of computers reluctantly at first. She had been writing her nutrition books on a typewriter when her husband came home one day in 1982 with a new IBM PC. The first time Kamen tried writing on it, she split a paragraph on the screen and panicked. "I couldn't figure out how to put it together again. The manuals were written by techies, and they were awful." Within two weeks, she was in love. When Kamen and her husband moved from New York City to Novato, Calif., several years ago, she would allow...
...Sinatra On Screen...
Born in India and raised in Burma, Shah knew as a young boy that he was supposed to be somewhere else in the world. He would pass beggars in the shadowy streets of Rangoon on his way to the movies, where a glamorous, faraway place filled the screen every day. William Holden was up there, along with Gregory Peck and Kim Novak, golden with the light of the West...
...FILES (June 19). TV's hit psy-fi drama dares to powerize the paranoia up to big-screen voltage. "The show is too big to call a cult now," observes actor-comedian Harry Shearer. "You could put the name X Files on a pack of cigarettes and people would buy it." (Hmm: "Cancer Man says, 'Smoke these and you too can head a vast government conspiracy.'") Our bet: with the top-rated series among young people as its base, the film will find $100 million worth of viewers ready to inhale...