Word: screens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...devious Triad crime that challenges Murtaugh and Riggs so is, happily, exceptionally amenable to pyrotechnical screen displays. The film delivers all the broken glass and gas explosions your heart could desire. Action sequences max out on adrenaline, like one on the freeway where Riggs fights a thug in a moving prefab home, gets dragged behind an oblivious truck and then manages to jump back into the waiting car of Murtaugh, who promptly drives through a glass-walled building. Orange fireballs are more common than not on these streets of LA, and there is no fun in arresting someone...
...Dipsy" and "Laa-Laa Has an Orange Ball." As Tubby body parts roll by in wheelbarrows and crew members carefully place live rabbits and racks of fake flowers on the Day-Glo green Home Hill, Davenport cautions, "There's a lot of intervention that happens before it reaches the screen. It's speeded up; it's colored sometimes; the characters are cut to make it look as though they keep their heads on for more than 10 minutes...
...knows that at the top of a downtown skyscraper is a guy whose father once slammed his face into a video-game screen. And now John Romero, 30, who ditched college, has the same birthday as Bill Gates, wears cutoffs to work and cruises there in one of his Ferraris or BMWs, or possibly the yellow Humvee, is a multimillionaire game designer like his three partners. Romero can't put gas in his car now without being hounded for autographs by admiring gamers. Maybe your son even knows Romero has 120 employees, some of them teenagers, making...
...rich Middle American earnestness. "Higher health-insurance costs may not be a big deal to some politicians, but to our employees and their families, it's a very big deal." The camera scans Bonifas and his office of contented, healthy workers, toiling away as a message on the screen warns that Washington could leave 2 million people like them without health insurance. "When politicians play doctor," a voice concludes, "real people can get hurt...
...Forget screen savers--when administrators wanta nice view, all they need to do is glance outtheir office windows and take in a spectacularview of Soldiers Field...