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...Apple IIGS. Late at night, I pine away for the exhilaration of traversing the Oregon Trail or tracking Carmen Sandiego, of creating Print Shop greeting cards on my dot-matrix printer or of using floppy disks that are actually floppy. My parents generously bestowed upon me a flat-screen monitor for my Dell, but despite its exquisite beauty and space-saving qualities, it’s really just a facelift masking an aging starlet who has seen one too many term papers...
Meanwhile, amid all the Iraq preparations, America is still fighting a perfectly good war--in Afghanistan and elsewhere--that has largely vanished from the screen. That war is the subject of ABC's Profiles from the Front Line (Thursdays, 8 p.m. E.T.), a surprisingly engrossing reality series that takes us along with a special-forces unit as it brings in an al-Qaeda suspect and aboard a smugglers' ship that the Navy has interdicted off Iraq. In the process, Profiles makes us realize that we have spent a year and a half fighting a war, with scant idea of what...
...other program in terms of portraying the proper image of African Americans,” S. Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, said in presenting Rashad the award. “She has worked very hard to bring social issues to the screen...
When the hall was illuminated for “The Reel Chaplin” the orchestra retained a sense of composure and poise. As soon as the big screen took over, however, the sound of confidence receded and the performers accepted a survival tactic. The orchestra performed their notes with less than optimal enthusiasm for musical clarity and diversity, occasionally hitting an incorrect note. The cohesiveness and refinement of sound was impeded by the inadequate venue and perhaps also the high expectations created by the large, unfamiliar audience...
Despite the artful integration of cinema and symphony, the entertainment of watching live music accompany mimes on the big screen largely derives from its novelty. Audiences naturally focus on the film rather than on the comparatively abstract musical evocations. As such, the orchestra is unusually removed from the audience, and the film distracts from its minor mistakes...