Word: screens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mission Control, though, the Decency Act was mostly a side issue. Smolan declined to drape his pages in black, although he did include a fiercely worded attack on the legislation by Internet activist John Perry Barlow, and he did agree late in the day to add to his "Welcome" screen a blue ribbon signifying solidarity with the protesters. But he did not go out of his way to cover the protest; it is mentioned only briefly in the story that accompanies an electronic image of the Clinton signing ceremony...
...mail, may not meet the legal definition of adultery--which implies physical, not virtual, coupling. But there's no doubt that cyberromances, whether licit or not, generate genuine feelings. "This is not the same as reading Playboy," says psychologist Sherry Turkle of M.I.T, author of Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet (Simon & Schuster; $25). "There really is another person there, and that person can touch you and move you in various ways, emotionally and sexually...
...would have done, the woman I spoke to decided to turn my private complaint into a public spectacle. Looking out over the customers waiting near the counter, she called out to them, "The video was clearly late. Would anyone care to come up here and tell me what my screen says?" She gestured towards the computer monitor before...
...scene, Travis's cab emerges on to the screen from a Dantean burst of steam like a metallic beast as Bernard Herrman's eerie score beats to a crescendo. A close-up of Travis's wide-open eyes reflects the gaudy neon lights of 42nd Street porn shops, as he absorbs the world about him for a fare. At times, his passivity seems to reappear in his actions. Travis sees the "pow-pow" finger motion of a fellow cabbie and imitates it later--in a drastically different context, perhaps suggesting how Travis is shaped by the world around...
...scum off the streets." Failing that, Travis attempts the same himself, ultimately seeking a sort of immortality, whether as an assassin of a political figure (the Senator, candidate for president) or as a noble representative of clean justice. To the very last minute of the film (when the screen changes to an eerie negative), "Taxi Driver" absorbs the audience in the madness of an ordinary...