Word: screens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Says Goodwin of writing the book, "The greatest pleasure...came from finding these kids on my block. Someone remembered the sound of screen doors slamming--that was our signal that someone had come over--and someone else remembered the sound of honking horns after the Rosenberg execution...This made me realize how much needs to be remembered and how much can be remembered when people are prompted...
...large TV-screen, pendant above the court, images of the Dins were superimposed on images of the American flag, Boston's skyline and colorful fireworks...
...aural images (including film clips and written and spoken words) all of which depict stereotypes of Asian men and women, especially in their sexual interactions. The clips, for instance, all feature scenes in which white men and Asian women are embracing. Meanwhile, questions roll across the bottom of the screen: "Do they really have small penises?"; "Have you heard the term 'asiaphile'...how about 'rice queen'...[or] 'pagoda worshiper?"; and "Why does People Magazine list 50 beautiful people with three Asian women and no Asian men?" Overlaid on the video itself is a sequence of readings from personal...
...starts by projecting stereograms--two-dimensional images that produce three-dimensional illusions--onto a big movie screen. As the students stare, a pattern of chain-saw-wielding teddy bears magically gives rise to the image of a large, headless bear that seems to hover in space. Sometimes, explains Pinker, 43, the mind "sees" things that are not really there...
They are all, God knows, energetic, and their never-a-dull-moment playing commands our astonished attention. You almost feel that if you let it wander for an instant, someone would reach out from the screen and slam you with a two-by-four. At the same time, you are aware that they are shoving this melodrama of class and manners uncomfortably close to farce and robbing the story's ending of its quietly stated force...