Word: screens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three days Eric Cornell kept rechecking his computer, not quite willing to believe what his eyes and his instruments were telling him. There on the screen was a dense knot of something that had appeared in a cloud of rubidium atoms. Finally, Cornell had to acknowledge that it could mean only one thing: he and his colleagues had created a new form of matter, predicted by Albert Einstein more than 70 years ago but never before seen on earth. Called a Bose-Einstein condensate, it is a kind of "superatom," in which individual atoms lose their separate identities and merge...
Forest Whitaker, currently being prodded by an alien on a screen near you in Species, is working on a touching project of his own. He's making his feature-film directing debut with Waiting to Exhale, the adaptation of the hugely popular 1992 novel by Terry McMillan, starring the even more popular WHITNEY HOUSTON. It's the story of four women, played by LORETTA DEVINE, Houston, ANGELA BASSETT and LELA ROCHON, who are all, for reasons mostly involving men, holding their breath. How did an actor macho enough to play a bomb expert in a bomb like Blown Away fare...
...automobile accident, is also quite clearly aware of motion seen by the "blind" eye even when the good eye is covered. "We find," says Zeki, "that he is consciously aware of moving stimuli and of their direction. He will tell you that the bars on a TV screen are moving left or right, toward or away, and he gets it 100% correct every time." Furthermore, notes Zeki, PET scans show that the patient's perception of motion is accompanied by the appropriate activation of V5. So how does the signal travel? Zeki is convinced the answer lies in a secondary...
...close-ups of Omri's face in this movie. While one of the best parts of the film was the realism of the special effects during interactions between the four-foot Omri and the four-inch Boone and Little Bear, Oz relied too heavily on filling the screen with Omri's face in order to emphasize the size difference between the boy and his friends...
Scardino's freckles and Letterman-style gap between his front teeth are cute from far away. When they take up the entire screen for the majority of the film, however, you begin to wish the director would cut to a Scope commercial and remind kids to brush their teeth...