Word: screens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sara, being the unaffected little darling that she is, makes friends with all the other students, charming them with her storytelling abilities. The story she tells, based on a tale from the Ramayana and brought to screen by computer technology, is the high point of the movie. Amazing special effects create a surreal landscape, studded with green thorns, where a blue-painted hero, Prince Rama, battles a multi-headed demon for his Asiatic Rapunzel. Told is segments, woven through the rest of the movie, the legend is paralleled to the separation of sara an her missing father. Prince Rama...
...continued providing all sorts of classified documents to the KGB, including the identity of more Soviet sources. The results were immediate and devastating. In the fall of 1985 and continuing into early 1986, some 20 CIA agents in the Soviet Union simply disappeared, vanishing off the agency's screen...
...power brings more than pace; it makes better theater on the screen. Conventioneers last week were mesmerized by a preview of 3DO's 64-bit chip (still in development) that can bathe surprisingly lifelike characters in a realistic-looking fog. Nintendo wowed viewers with a videotape demonstrating how its new computational horsepower can be used to eliminate the jagged lines in and around objects, wrap them in textures, or even zoom in and out without suffering the usual loss of clarity...
...much as $2 billion to Murdoch's buying power. A year ago, after MCI sold a 20% stake of itself to British Telecommunications for $4.3 billion, it began looking for a partner to transform its worldwide phone network into pathways for "content"-whatever a computer or TV screen can receive, from info-services to movies. "You can hardly think of content without the name of Rupert Murdoch coming to the fore," says MCI chairman Bert Roberts...
...female lead in two huge hits, When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle, and in the new box-office favorite French Kiss, she is also the current soul of romantic comedy. And what you see on screen is what you get on the set. "She's adorable, huggable, smart, funny and strong," says French Kiss director Lawrence Kasdan, listing the five Comic Heroine virtues as if they had been minted for Ryan. "Men want to be married to her, and women want to be her friends.'' Says Nora Ephron, who wrote When Harry Met Sally and directed Sleepless...