Word: screens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long as shows have been confined to one screen in Loker, HRTV members have been disappointed with the audience turnout...
...courthouse at Jasper had never seen anything like it before. There, just inside the massive French doors on the 110-year-old yellow stucco building, were an X-ray machine and a metal detector to screen everyone entering the building. But, of course, the little logging town hasn't been quite the same since June 7, 1998, when a black man was chained to the back of a pickup and dragged three miles to his death, pieces of him, including his head, falling by the wayside. Now the first of three white men accused of the crime...
...Meanwhile, studio executives from 20th Century Fox in Los Angeles are on the phone constantly nagging the producer to lobby DiCaprio to wear Puma sandals for a product-placement plug. What makes all this tolerable for DiCaprio and his colleagues is the opportunity to bring The Beach to the screen. It is the story of an aimless traveler named Richard who gets a map leading to a secret beach where a post-hippie community uneasily shares its Eden with treacherous, dope-growing Thai farmers. Some critics described the novel as Lord of the Flies for Generation X. Though it sold...
...lighter than its 3.2-lb. cousin, as well as $100 cheaper. But I'd buy the Tripad, which has a larger (9.4-in.) screen and an easier-to-use keyboard. The Tripad's screen pivots on two arms, so you can flip it down over the keyboard and use it for, say, data entry. This feature is less useful to me than to a UPS guy perhaps or a tax accountant. Still, I enjoyed the flexibility of positioning the screen just where I wanted...
...claims to have 24 personalities, is vague on many details of his life, but he knows exactly how much he has been paid for his story. West, 43, received a $110,000 advance from Hyperion for his new book, First Person Plural: My Life as a Multiple, and screen rights have been sold for $1.15 million. West says his numerous personalities, whom he refers to as "my guys," are the result of severe sexual abuse as a child; they include a six-year-old named MOZART, four-year-old twin girls named Anna and Trudi and a 30-year...