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Last-minute additions of minorities aren't enough to change perceptions. We can't be an afterthought. We're part of the whole picture. It's a picture people are watching closely--and absorbing unconsciously--on big and small screens across the world.
With more computers than ever ready to be booted up in classrooms across the country, our schools should be turning out thousands of Bill Gates clones. Not so fast. It seems half the screens are dark because the geeks who backed this rush to get computers in schools forgot one...
In this day of ocean-spanning satellite cameras, the viewing public is warned earlier ?- and titillated more meticulously ? than ever before. Like voyagers to Kong Island, we heard the slow, ominous drumbeat long before we glimpsed the beast. Eye-popping computer models, resplendent in oranges and greens, swirled on television...
To get a sense of a saturated market, take in a show in Ontario, Calif., where rivals AMC and Edwards Theatres have set up megaplexes with a combined 52 screens practically across the street from each other. While both theaters claim to make a profit, neither is happy. Apparently, though...
Most of the chains, though, claim they are feeling no pain. "We don't just redivide the pie, we enlarge it," argues Phil Zacheretti, a senior vice president at industry leader Regal Cinemas, a privately held behemoth with 4,000 screens. Yet even AMC, the aggressive, $900 million-a-year...