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...size of one of the last generation of VHS players, it is recommended for projections as large as 10 ft. as measured along the diagonal. (It can throw an image as big as 25 ft. across, but it would look considerably dimmer.) Optoma also recommends using a projector screen, and I can attest that the image looked way better on the 80-incher they lent me - a decent foldable one costs $399 - than it did on the wall. (See the best inventions...
...projector on a coffee table about 10 ft. from the screen and connected it to my laptop's DVD player. (This required adapter cables that cost about $50.) To round out my ad hoc system, I plugged into my laptop the portable PC speakers and subwoofer ($25 from Logitech) I use with my desktop computer and - voilà! - home theater...
...Texas, outside Abilene). I remember someone making a cheesy movie about debate—“Talk to Me”?—called Dallas to see what the Harvard debate coach sounded like. Needless to say, the drawl and hair did not make it to the screen. Appearances notwithstanding, his mind was and is razor-sharp; his instinct about argument unerring, and his dedication to debate boundless...
...babies continue to multiply on YouTube, a year after the release of the singer's female-independence anthem. A two-minute video of a 13-month-old boy leaning against a coffee table as he bounces and kicks along to Beyoncé, who looms before him on a wide-screen TV, recently passed 2.8 million views. (The boy couldn't even walk at the time, according to his father Chester Elliott, who has since started a website called SingleBabies.com.) Another baby-loves-Beyoncé video, of an astoundingly limber toddler named Ava, has been watched more than a million times...
This is a reasonable qualm, but as Max might say, "Now stop!" Jonze, chronicler of uncertain adulthood in Being John Malkovich and Adaptation, has done a masterly job of bringing Sendak's work to the screen. He has broken one Hollywood doctrine: the notion that children's cinema is best devised for miniature couch potatoes who require a steady stream of laughs, action sequences and references to flatulence. Even the best American children's movies, like those made by Pixar, embed their heartfelt messages in what are fundamentally entertainments. The mysterious emotional turmoil and, let's face it, weirdness that...