Word: screens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reasons that lie behind Boorda's suicide will probably never be understood. Could it be that this former enlisted man still felt insecure in his accomplishments, next to the Annapolis graduates who surrounded him? "This would have been a blip on the screen for me," said Duane Bushey, who worked with Boorda from 1988 to '92 as the Navy's master chief petty officer. "I think it would be humiliating for him. But even if it came out that he really didn't deserve them, I think the average sailor would say, 'Yeah, but look at what...
Back on the movie screen, some of the big names besides Bertolucci were disappointing their fans. Robert Altman's Kansas City, starring Jennifer Jason Leigh and Miranda Richardson, shrouds the aimless bustle of its plot--kidnapping, murder and political maneuvering set against a 1934 jazz milieu--in an opium haze of dramatic anomie. Stephen Frears' The Van, third in the series that includes The Commitments and The Snapper, is a noisy mess, with shouting in lieu of wit and brawls stunt-doubling for character conflict. But this pub/pug violence was mild next to the atrocities in David Cronenberg's Crash...
Clinton's announcement was a minor blip on the screen in China, says TIME's Mia Turner in Beijing, because the Chinese have long expected to be granted MFN status. At a Foreign Ministry Press briefing on Tuesday, the Chinese official line was simply that the United States had made a wise decision. But there is still considerable dissatisfaction with the U.S. in Beijing. Trade officials there are are angry that the MFN status has only been renewed for one year, and are still upset over last week's trade sanctions. "The Chinese are reacting very strongly to the sanctions...
...already made hockey more accessible with the computer-enhanced puck that gives off a comet-like trail when slapped. On its football telecasts, Fox introduced not only a little score box in the corner of the screen but also the comedy team of Terry Bradshaw and Howie Long. They may be best taken in small doses, but a black-and-white barbershop scene that opened a pregame show in Fox's first N.F.L. season and featured the ex-players reminiscing with a barber about the old days of football was as clever and as humorous as TV gets, much less...
DIED. LUIS MIGUEL DOMINGUIN, 69, bullfighter whose rivalry with toreador brother-in-law Antonio Ordonez was immortalized by Ernest Hemingway; following a stroke; in Sotogrande, Spain. His affairs with screen idols Ava Gardner and Lana Turner were chronicled in loving detail by gossip columnists...