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Which isn't to underplay the movie's aesthetic triumph. With its unprecedented blend of narrative innocence and stylistic sophistication, of pseudomythic solemnity and high-tech kick, of abject weirdness and cunning familiarity, Star Wars helped set the standard for what a modern commercial movie can be at its best (ingenious, kinetic, exhilarating). Unfortunately it also provided a template with which countless imitators have since shown what a modern commercial movie can be at its dreariest (mind numbing, mechanical, pointlessly assaultive). For good or evil, Star Wars has been to the past two decades of American moviemaking what Ronald Reagan...
...Instead he is low-key and unpretentious, a serious but not uncheerful man who seems used to having things his way, in a manner probably not unlike a lot of other millionaire Northern California entrepreneurs (though at 52 he is something of an elder statesman). His ranch's high-tech facilities are disguised by tidy vineyards and lovingly detailed re-creations of turn-of-the-century Northern California architecture: even the luxe employee gym in this better class of Disney World has Arts and Crafts-like lighting fixtures. Clearly this is the domain of a man with a strong vision...
...letter, Knowles also cited the high cost of wiring the entire University to the Internet. Calling the new technology "unavoidable," council members said they agree with the letter that access to e-mail and the World Wide Web is a necessity in today's high-tech environment
...important that we take to heart what the neuroscientists are telling us--without losing the heart of the reading experience. In today's high-tech world of E-mail and microchips, it is easy to forget the importance of human connections in our daily activities. Technology has brought many welcome conveniences to our lives. But it has the potential to create feelings of distance, detachment and isolation among...
...lies chiefly in his financial success and less in his achievements, which history will prove are of negligible importance. The key issues that face mankind will still be decided by human beings, not computers. The alleged power of the Web and the Internet are nothing more than a high-tech yuppie myth promoted by a relative minority. MARK TERRILL Wacken, Germany...