Word: searchlight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Movie and TV Studios] 20th Century Fox, Fox Animation, Searchlight...
...that I became an exotic beauty," she says. "I did my best to give a version of Chinese-ness that the West was looking for. But I also understood that that version of me was worthless. I wanted to do something more serious." Clearly, Chen's striking beauty--searchlight eyes, long, strong neck and, it must be said, the most luscious mouth on either side of the Pacific--is merely the wrapping for surpassing talent and drive. Hollywood's favorite China doll wanted to direct...
...weeks ago you called me a Bolshevik, which I am not. Now I notice that you call the Searchlight on Congress a Ku Klux Klan organ, which it is not. The Searchlight on Congress has nothing to do with the Klan. You have, since it appears that you are supporting the Klan Kandidate Koolidge. UPTON SINCLAIR Pasadena, Calif...
...Kasparov, and in the ensuing games he mercilessly exposed his opponent's weaknesses. Deep Blue is a data-grinding engine of staggering proportions: a 1.5-ton supercomputer able to sort 40 billion combinations in an average three-minute move, shining its searchlight far into a game's future to find a winning strategy. When your opponent is Kasparov, though, it's (thus far) impossible for even a 1.5-ton supercomputer to search far enough to be sure it chooses wisely. "Deep Blue sees everything in the searchlight very well," says research scientist Murray Campbell. "But after that, in the black...
...beyond them, particularly in his power of formal arrangement and his sense of color. At their best, his friezes of androgynous Shirley Temploids hold the long scroll format beautifully, with a fine sense of interval and grouping. With the big, delicate flowers and butterflies alternating with weird, cavernous landscapes, searchlight rays and puffs of rifle smoke, they are like a skewed version of Kate Greenaway's Victorian illustrations. The pale, blooming color is rarely less than inventive, and it can break out into a startling decorative richness--as in Two Spangled Blengins, showing a pair of dragons with striped...