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...sudden shock, walks, talks and grunts the part of the bull-headed Brooks with confidence; if the film had been released two months earlier, he could very well be garnering award attention. The film’s only crutch is its presentation of the hockey games, splattered onto the screen with so many close-ups and jump cuts as to make the games unintelligible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happening | 2/26/2004 | See Source »

...carry news of secrets being told behind our backs. The more individual streams of information one can understand, the better: The privileged one is not the broadcaster who beams one image outwards to the world, but the all-knowing guard, sitting in front of a closed-circuit TV whose screen flashes 10 images at once...

Author: By Liora R. Halperin, LIORA RUSSMAN HALPERIN | Title: Mastering the Split Screen | 2/26/2004 | See Source »

...Jazeera has been the master of this split-screen approach for years, but the United States is just now catching up to the rest of the world. Thanks to aggressive British colonialism during the past two centuries, much of the post-colonial world is multilingual—following U.S. news, watching President Bush’s speeches and developing first-hand opinions about America. Much of America, however, remains proudly English-only, especially proud of exporting its media along with its Coca-Cola. We often forget that the world is getting our message all too well—and analyzing...

Author: By Liora R. Halperin, LIORA RUSSMAN HALPERIN | Title: Mastering the Split Screen | 2/26/2004 | See Source »

...dinner at one of Saddam’s water palaces (they had been living there since February 2002, a month before combat had officially begun). We ate Whoppers and hot apple pies around a U-shaped marble table in lavish, high-backed upholstered chairs. Saddam’s flat-screen surround-sound theater system echoed satellite television off the cavernous walls of the ballroom...

Author: By Henry I. Stern, | Title: Vacation in Baghdad | 2/25/2004 | See Source »

Romano Conquest He's big on the small screen, but will everybody love Ray at the movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Table of Contents: Feb. 23, 2004 | 2/23/2004 | See Source »

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