Word: screens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been pushing hard--not that he could do it any other way--for a new generation of inexpensive, easy-to-use network computers, the so-called NCs. The idea is simple enough: build an inexpensive box (under $500) that combines the best of a PC (some processing smarts, a screen, a modem) with the best of the Net (tons of information, most of it free). Behind the scenes, database software (Oracle's, of course) will make all this goodness transparently simple to navigate. On the front end, in Ellison's vision, might be Apple's famously friendly user interface, returning...
...while the lobbyists were making their rounds, EchoStar executives abruptly announced that negotiations with Murdoch had stalled, stymied by the media mogul's insistence that EchoStar switch to a Murdoch-approved descrambling technology. Some industry observers contend the technology issue is only a smoke screen for other problems faced by the venture. The deal was thrown further into doubt late last week when Preston Padden, Murdoch's top satellite executive, resigned, reportedly after clashing with EchoStar chairman Charles Ergen over control of the venture. "The EchoStar deal left me without a real job," Padden told TIME. "I have nothing...
...gather data from a broad range of sources: from friends, pharmacists and store clerks to magazines, the Internet and other media obsessed with health and fitness. "The No. 1 source of information is probably Oprah Winfrey," Troup says laughing. His favorite resource: GNC's Interactive BioNutritional Encyclopedia, a touch-screen computer that helps customers navigate GNC's bewildering array of multivitamins, herbs, minerals and, coming soon, "nutriceuticals...
...would see what is known as antimatter: bizarre subatomic particles that resemble ordinary protons and electrons but carry an opposite charge. But when NASA controllers trained the orbiting Compton Gamma Ray Observatory on this core region and beamed the data back, Purcell saw something on his computer screen at Northwestern University that nobody could have predicted: a veritable colossus of antimatter, a vast fountain spewing out from the center of our galaxy and reaching trillions of miles into space...
...acting, this production is dead-on. It never misses a chance to up the ante through the clever use of visual and sound effects. Each time a new couple arrives, they are presaged by the glow of their headlights; then their silhouettes are thrown up, vastly enlarged, against the screen that marks the front door, creating an effect both menacing and inherently comical. The second act begins with no sound except that of Ken chewing and swallowing his dinner: magnified to such a volume that it reverberates through the theater, ironically underscoring Ken's loss of hearing...