Word: screens
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...prison life to the viewer. But you won’t find gyrating booties or a waterfall of hundred dollar bills in this video, only Polaroid-style photo shots of Nas and his crew chillin’ through the years, while a mishmash of handwritten notes flutters across the screen. The video begins in silence, with a shot of a classic black-and-white notebook labeled “Nas Rhymes” opening up like a fairytale book. Scribbled on the ruled paper inside is the declaration, “This is the story of hip-hop?...
...technology has always been Sharp's strength. It was the first company to mass-produce the LCD calculator, and has been a leader in displays for gadgets like cell phones, camcorders and portable videogame consoles. But Sharp's success in the flat-screen world is the result of its willingness to marry elegant design to its technical skill by using teams that broke the rules of traditional Japanese business...
...first line of Kita Aquos--a sleek, metallic-silver flat screen with two soft, round bulges at the bottom for speakers, set on a boomerang-footed pedestal--won a shelfful of design awards and a place in European museums like the Pompidou...
...easy to forget that the jovial Mike Huckabee is campaigning as a Christian-right candidate. But his latest TV ad is a pretty good reminder. The words Christian Leader flash across the screen while Huckabee explains that "faith doesn't just influence me, it really defines me. I don't have to wake up every day wondering, 'What do I need to believe?'" He also exhorts religious conservatives to "live or die" by the belief that life starts at conception. Evangelical support has led to a recent Huckabee surge in Iowa, and this ad could boost those numbers further...
...romance, the seductive mystery of Violet Bick. But isn't there something a little oppressive about it? To me, a former small-town kid, it's a tragedy, about a man whose dreams are beaten down by his needy, parochial, busybody neighbors. I want to yell at the screen, "You go on that honeymoon, George Bailey! Tell that cabdriver to floor it and never look back...