Word: screens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...imposing, mahogany doors, and together you mill around the Commons, indulging in a decision-making process so rare for Harvard students: "Well, should we do pizza today, or 'Tex-Mex?'" You all then pause and squint, trying desperately to decipher the images appearing on the 70-square-foot video-screen to the rear of the space; studying the near traumatizing effect of watching giant images fading out before they ever completely fade in. Mental torment aside, however, the Commons is truly a remarkable place for students...
...Lawrence on Friday, junior Stuart Swenson gave the Saints all but 12-seconds to enjoy their 2-1 lead early in the second period. Following the face off at center ice, Swenson picked up the puck and zoomed into the zone. Swenson wristed the biscuit through a screen and past the St. Lawrence goalie to tie that game...
Much of the nation was not just dismayed but calling for action. As Kaufman lay in a hospital with burns over 80% of his body, the Money Train incident reignited a debate about whether violence on the screen inspires the real thing. It's a debate that crops up regularly, most recently over the firebug antics on the MTV cartoon show Beavis and Butt-head and the traffic-dodging pranks in Disney's 1993 film The Program. This time, however, the filmmakers appear to have been warned. Jack Lusk, senior vice president in charge of movie permits for New York...
...DISNEY THAT NEVER WAS By Charles Solomon (Hyperion; $40). As productive as the studio was during Walt Disney's life (he died in 1966), many projects dear to his heart never made it to the screen. This book is a reverie on an art form whose possibilities were still being explored. The stars are not the fabled animators but the conceptual artists whose work they drew on. Here is Mickey way back when he was a rodent outlaw; drenching pastels of fairyland by Sylvia Holland; a surreal grand piano with a fierce trail of tyrannical music hovering above...
...case you've missed it, is Mann's point. Throughout the movie, he has given us a vision of Los Angeles that goes beyond the usual sheen-and-scuzz contrasts it amuses most directors to observe. His L.A. is a void, a blankness, something like an empty movie screen--or an empty modern soul--waiting to be filled up with that most hypnotic of abstractions, violent action. This, he's saying, is what some of us are good at. And, all pieties aside, look how much we like...