Word: screens
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That may have been his second mistake. The government's lead counsel got exactly 201 words into his argument when the first Justice cut in, asking for a citation. Waxman recovered, mustered an additional 111 words about how it's technologically feasible for Websites to screen users by age, when Justice Sandra Day O'Connor interrupted. "Does that technology require use of something called cgi?" she asked, referring to a complex protocol for changing what users see on a Web page. "It does," agreed Waxman, thereby opening the door to a line of argument in which he found himself suggesting...
...members, just as advertisers use the Net to sell products to consumers. Unlike TV or radio, the Net offers a very personal way to contact the audience. Some people are particularly vulnerable to email and chatroom conversations with folks they may meet in the intimate setting of the computer screen in their own den or bedroom...
...when somebody has died." David Wells, a theology professor at Massachusetts' Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, notes, "We would expect to hear of it in the Evangelical churches, but I don't hear it at all." He pauses. "I don't think heaven is even a blip on the Christian screen, from one end of the denominational spectrum to the other. The more perplexing question is, What explains this...
DIED. FRED ZINNEMANN, 89, three-time Oscar-winning director; in London. From 1950s screen classics High Noon and From Here to Eternity through A Man for All Seasons in 1966, he demonstrated an abiding concern with the battle between good and evil, as well as a mastery of eliciting sensitive, finely etched performances from actors...
...discontents but one bringing them to the wilderness. Discounting the many B-westerns he made in his early days, he played more military men, lawmen and empire builders than he did freelance saddle tramps. "Wayne?s imposing physical presence and the cranky large-heartedness he conveyed on screen, implicitly romanticized dutifulness," notes Schickel. "When he died in 1979 most of us no longer found the idea or the ideal of the frontier very useful. Our culture ceased to celebrate people who bound their lives to the defense of simple, personal moralities such as Wayne embodied. But that, even liberals, deploring...