Word: teller
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...peaks contrasted with juvenilia. Thus no one is served, neither writer nor audience, by reviving Peter Shaffer's one-acts about sex, greed and self-deceit. White Liars, the opener, has been rewritten but remains derivative sentimentality about an old East European immigrant barely getting by as a fortune teller on the holiday coast of England. Black Comedy relies on the gimmick of pretending that lights are out when they are on, so people stumble about in unintended sexual tangles while the audience chortles from the superiority of being able to see. It's possible to beguile audiences while amusing...
...young woman in a gold BMW was dragged to her death trying to save her baby daughter when thieves drove off in her car. Los Angeles mourned Sherri Foreman, 29, a pregnant beautician who was stabbed by a carjacker when she stopped her 1984 BMW at an automated-teller machine. By the time the ambulance reached the hospital, the 12-week-old fetus was dead. A day later, so was the mother...
...nation's leading producer of electronic cash registers and the world's largest manufacturer of automated teller machines for banks. The company is the third biggest issuer of credit cards, behind only American Express and Citibank. It has also expanded into the field of multimedia (machines that can combine text, graphics, sound and video) by buying pieces of EO, interactive computer maker 3DO Co. and software start-up General Magic. Earlier this month, the phone giant entered the video-game business through a joint venture with Sega Enterprises that will enable players to take on opponents over...
...sure thing: for sending out a $1,400 print of Last Jurassic Action Park, studios get $1 from every ticket sold. Manufacturing and shipping CDs, a business that employs tens of thousands of people, is similarly dull and profitable. Still, the moguls aren't Luddites. MCA Music chairman Al Teller, for instance, says MCA will have its own one-at-a-time CD-system prototype 18 months from now. And Sid Ganis, president of marketing and distribution for Sony's Columbia Pictures, can hardly afford to be anti-high-tech. "At Sony the grand plan is combining software and hardware...
More than anything else, the showmen are worried that the pumped-up glamour and hype on which their businesses depend will leach away if audiences can pick and choose and consume in electronic solitude. "We are standing on a revolutionary threshold," says MCA's Teller of on-line delivery. "But I don't believe the highest form of human existence is sitting at home in a cocoon downloading digital bits...