Word: screens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Netscape wasted little time in counterattacking. Two weeks later, on Aug. 26, company founder Jim Clark unveiled blueprints for a new software firm called Navio that will try to outflank Microsoft by putting browser software on pretty much anything with a screen and a modem. The first stop is likely to be an Internet TV, followed by a $500 network computer, online video gaming machines and Net-surfing cell phones. Organized around a powerhouse electronics alliance that includes just about everyone but Microsoft (Sony, NEC, Nintendo and IBM are supporting the venture), the company...
...other national cinema the antics in the first reel of Mukul S. Anand's Khuda Gawah (God Is My Witness) might be giggled off the screen. But Indian films are like no other: a churning blend of epic conflict and cootchy choreography, of Sergio Leone and Vincente Minnelli...
...Witness parades the same ethnic rivalries and cinematic delirium. Spanning two generations, three hours of screen time and a dozen teeming plots and counterplots, the film is weird and enthralling enough to hook American cinephiles and leave them praying for more...
...first decade of Saturday Night Live that there was ever such a thing as movies. First Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner and John Belushi proved their worth as sketch artists who could inhabit weird, endearing characters while running wild laps around them. Then they exiled themselves into big-screen junk where they looked forlorn and their talents were cramped. Ninety minutes of Doctor Detroit offered a lot less pure Aykroyd than five minutes of his Nixon on S.N.L...
...rights on the job. Even some Republicans, like Senator Alfonse D'Amato, embrace the measure--which is being considered as a separate bill this week--which says, in effect, we will go along with this gratuitous marriage thing, but only if you are not using it as a smoke screen for wholesale discrimination against homosexuals...