Word: screens
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...FUTURE OF THE COUCH POTATO IS looking brighter--and more interactive. Crashed-out boob-tube watchers who hate to get up and use a computer will soon be able to channel- and Net-surf on the same screen. This week Gateway 2000, the PC direct marketer, will introduce the long-promised big-screen PC. The $4,000 Destination consists of a PC with a 31-in. monitor, a wireless keyboard and access to television signals and the Internet. Mix in a high-speed modem and a friendly interface that helps byte phobiacs navigate the Net, and you'd have interactive...
...movie without vigorous cuts. "Her vision of the film and what we could air were not the same thing," says a TNT spokeswoman. Not wanting to offend Huston, or indeed Jennifer Jason Leigh, who stars, Turner offered it back to Huston, who will now try for a big-screen release. At least it's a novel method of getting movie financing. COMIC TOOL...
...Marxist verbiage, and is making an effort to include all groups that could help him defeat Yeltsin. Yet a large percentage of the nation's voters are profoundly suspicious, fearing that Zyuganov's talk of popular fronts and his promises to play by parliamentary rules are a smoke screen to mask his real ambitions...
After the three briefly showed pieces of their work on a video screen, Blue Man Chris Wink spoke for an hour about the group's underlying philosophy...
HELMS-BURTON IS A SMOKE SCREEN TO deflect the attention of the public away from the inadequacies of U.S. foreign policy regarding Cuba. Is the American government really so concerned about the morality of doing business with what it calls an oppressive dictatorship? The issue here is not morality. It is that the American government, through four decades of unsuccessful economic sabotage geared toward bringing down a system of government it deems inappropriate, has succeeded only in alienating itself from the trade equation. PETER DOZZI Sudbury, Ontario...