Word: screens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This week Palm will introduce a third-generation device, the Palm III. It will offer more memory, an improved screen and a built-in infrared beam that owners can use to wirelessly squirt their business cards at each other. But the one feature it could really use is an anti-Microsoft heat shield, because the Redmond, Wash., software giant is turning up the temperature on Palm...
Travolta and Bill Clinton both know about perseverance and the uses of charisma. As the actor spreads his seductiveness on a movie screen like jelly on toast, so does Clinton work a room or a country, avidly selling his policies and himself, in love with being loved--and with his need to be loved. No wonder that when Travolta met Klein, he said, "I've been waiting my whole life to play this role...
...little slippery? That's the kind of presidential timber we've been getting in the movies lately. Men apt to cut a few moral corners, and then a few more, until all the right angles are as smooth as they are. Men with the scruples of the off-screen President in Wag the Dog, who is caught in a scandal with an underage girl. Or of President Gene Hackman in Absolute Power, who has sex so rough with the wife of a major contributor that she wounds him with a letter opener. That leads his Secret Service agents to burst...
...surprise of the Coens' new film The Big Lebowski is that Jeff Lebowski (Jeff Bridges), known to his pals simply as "the Dude," turns out to be one of the funniest and most likable screen characters in recent memory...
...great concept. It's a great script. It even spawned a great screen adaptation with Audrey Hepburn and Alan Arkin. Do yourself a favor and rent the video. Don't bother forking over sixty dollars at the Wilbur Theater, where Wait is waiting out its pre-Broadway run. Director Leonard Foglia's half-hearted stage rendering has its moments, but the production as a whole hovers somewhere between mediocrity and patent ineptitude...