Word: screens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cinematography in "Dead Man" is mesmerizing. Under Jarmusch's direction, the western wilderness plays itself out in gray forms emerging from a bleached-out screen or disappearing into a white mist. Through such a lens, a mountain is as immaterial as a stick of kindling, a laketop as impenetrable as a cliff's face. The film is handled episodically, with a full fade to black between scenes. These pauses in the narrative slow the film down and thwart the efforts of audience members to gauge the pace or predict the plot. The moments of blankness, which Jarmusch describes as "respiration...
...displays all the text on a page before adding the graphics, a basic feature that makes browsing much more efficient. Microsoft's browser also lets you change the size of screen text from its toolbar, which makes text-heavy pages much easier to read and print...
...distinguish real from false except via personal experience. I know I'm conscious, but I can't really speak for the rest of you. Peering into the brain is as futile as peering into a TV set to explain the mimicry of a sunset on the screen. ROY BUTTERFIELD Keighley, England Via E-mail...
They are not the first to find that transplanting skitcom to the big screen carries as many perils as seductions. Sometimes the result is Wayne's World, and sometimes It's Pat. Thanks for trying, Kids, but Brain Candy is the latter...
DIED. BEN JOHNSON, 77, screen actor; in Mesa, Arizona. The connection that launched Johnson's career was his horse, rented out for Howard Hughes' The Outlaw. Johnson came along as a wrangler, ultimately landing supporting roles in westerns like Shane (1953) and an Oscar-winning turn in The Last Picture Show...