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Slide the REX into a notebook's PCMCIA slot or a special desktop docking station and all your data is transferred in seconds. Despite the lack of on-board data entry, the sheer size of the REX has made it a big hit. Look for it to be a big seller in the coming year...
...aspect of her success, however, surprises even the assertive Malkani: the men she negotiated with in the Middle East, though hardly accustomed to dealing with women as equals, "were very, very welcoming. It was amazing." An explanation might have been the sheer novelty of meeting an American female chief executive with Malkani's technical training: she has degrees in mathematics, computer science and electrical engineering, and worked in telecommunications before founding her own company. Says Malkani: "It was so unusual to be a lady [with that] expertise." Novelty of course is not enough; ISN's credentials as a U.S. government...
Bigness was, of course, an attraction of the actual ship. In the film, the ship company's boss says, "I wanted to convey sheer size." Cameron could be his spiritual heir. The man who made The Terminator for $6 million has become the high priest of Hollywood bloat. He is also the movies' mad toymaster: he keeps falling in love with an imposing machine (a cyborg, an alien, a submarine, a Harrier jet, an ocean liner) that he then spends great amounts of time and energy destroying...
...spin-off series, a video game and now a movie looming in the future, "Scud" is obviously one of the success stories of the competitive world of independent comics. And, unusually, it's succeeded not through literary depth or through the invention of strange new worlds, but through sheer attitude and its own idiosyncratic method of drawing together the disparate threads of popular culture. There's a prevailing opinion that genius consists less in originality than in the ability to bring together what's already in the air, giving it a new life of its own. According to that point...
...extremely difficult to know how to criticize a movie that deals with the Holocaust. A filmmaker deserves credit for even trying to film such a subject: the sheer scale and enormity of World War II seems to defy attempts at artistic representation. How can we represent the unspeakable...