Word: topness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...FireWire ports and comes with iMovie--film-editing software so intuitive that it doesn't have a manual, or need one. Learn to crop, clip and swap scenes with the tutorial, plug in the camera and bingo--you're in postproduction. Other editing suites include Adobe Premiere ($895) and top-of-the-line Avid Express...
...With the Mars Polar Lander all but written off as a total loss, and the catastrophic failure of the Mars Climate Orbiter three months earlier, NASA is fast becoming the Dan Quayle of government agencies. Late-night comics have been roasting it mercilessly, while the Washington Post offered a Top 10 list of NASA excuses for the latest fiasco. (No. 10: Be patient. Mars Lander is trying to dial in on an AOL account.) Some cyberpranksters offered the Polar Lander for sale on eBay and got 16 bids...
...ROSETTA She is the teenager who will do anything to get any job, however menial. Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne's dour Belgian drama earned the top prize at Cannes this year by being both grinding in its bleakness and inspiring in its intensity. Emilie Dequenne plays Rosetta with a blank fury that suggests a medieval saint or a modern assassin...
...SANTANA Supernatural (Arista). Let's face it: most '60s rockers have headed out to pasture. But with a little help from his friends (Lauryn Hill, Everlast), 52-year-old Carlos Santana stayed alive by renewing the formula that once took him to the top: blues, Hendrix-style guitar work and chugging Afro-Latin rhythms. Rock history, written by lightning fingers...
...NUBIANS Princesses Nubiennes (Omtown). Helene and Celia Faussart, singing sisters from Bordeaux, France, boast a global sound: they take African rhythms and American soul and top them off with a cool, seductive delivery that's distinctively French. A magical musical package tour...