Word: tooling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...might be as long as an hour." It was two. "Is this some kind of record?" I exploded when at last a support guy answered. "Nope," he said with a chuckle. Two hours later, after taking me on a hellish tour of "msconfig"--an apparently pointless Windows 98 diagnostic tool--he admitted he couldn't fix the machine. He said I'd need to reinstall Windows 98. When I told him I didn't have my Win98 boot disc (a floppy disc that helps kick-start your machine by circumventing the hard drive), he said I'd need to reinstall...
Whereas in other ballroom films, dance merely reinforces what the audience already knows about the characters and their situation; dance in Tango amplifies emotional subtlety and addresses issues of significance beyond that of the immediate scene. It is a surprisingly effective cinematic tool that manages to keep the audience hypnotized for a length surpassing that which Hollywood directors would dare to attempt without dialogue...
...years -- the mission serves to highlight how ballooning has both foreshadowed the future and come full circle. Ballooning began as a sport for daredevils with the first crossing of the English Channel in 1785, became the forerunner of a modern air force when it was used as aerial spying tool for the French in 1794, heralded the coming of passenger air service with the subsequent development of blimps, and introduced mankind to space exploration with high-altitude scientific balloons. Now in the 20th century, ballooning is back in vogue as a full-fledged sport. As the records have fallen, from...
...country back to Congo (from Zaire). He brought inflation down from 900% to 5%. He attempted to build a professional army. But what Kabila didn't do was broaden his political base beyond his own tribe. And he began using arrests of politicians and journalists as a management tool...
...student Clay Zimmerman's photograph of a large home sitting behind a highway. The house is illuminated, orange and bright, while the highway is dark, a thought-provoking color contrast reminiscent of Rene Magritte's eerie painting, "The Empire of the Light." For Zimmerman, technology is not only a tool, but also a subject: the house is nearly dwarfed by two satellite dishes, creating a juxtaposition of homey architecture and lonely telecommunications, all dramatically illuminated with highway and house lights...