Word: screens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Viewers push buttons on pistol grips mounted on the armests of their seats; graphics indicate when it's time to vote and what the choices are. During the voting, a running tally appears on-screen. The idea is to push your button of choice not just once--which one would think would be all that was strictly necessary--but as many times and as fast as possible. This is clearly designed to foster an atmosphere of rowdy and cheerful competition, especially as audience members are encouraged to shout at one another. At the screening I attended, Interfilm lackeys in DPMO...
Gender-Bending on the Big Screen Series. "Forbidden Love" at 7:30 p.m. "Paris is Burning" at 10 p.m. Adams House Pool Theatre. Free...
While this production will undoubtedly be helped by its screen stars, the stage performances do not live up to expectations...
...excellent choice. As we jaded Americans settled back into our seats to sleep or watch the film, the Elvises gathered eagerly before the screen. Although few American viewers paid attention to the cultural-historical "plot" of this year's feel-good favorite, the film touched an inner chord with the flying Elvises...
...story to the Paris daily Le Monde and ordered the Americans to leave, are catching flak. They support Premier Edouard Balladur, whose presidential campaign was already tangled in a wiretapping scandal. "It's a campaign maneuver," said Philippe Vasseur, a Chirac backer. "They were trying to create a smoke screen." In Washington, State Department officials said it was unlikely that the four accused Americans who are U.S. diplomats would depart before their posting ended...