Word: tv
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nowhere is this creeping globalism more striking than in high-definition television. Six months ago, American electronics manufacturers were using apocalyptic terms to describe the race to build tomorrow's TV sets, calling it a life-and-death struggle for economic survival. But plans for a coordinated U.S. effort quickly got bogged down in arguments over technical standards...
...recognizable human misfortune, almost inevitable given the circumstances. Grant's direction is both sensitive and street-smart (filming was done in Pittsburgh). Daniels, though too fresh-faced as the blue-collar father, brings hot-tempered passion to the role. And Lahti, possibly the best actress in America working in TV (she won an Emmy nomination for her performance in the mini-series Amerika), is truly heartbreaking. She can convey both the despair lurking behind a brave comment to her husband and a pathetic joy at ever smaller victories. "You guys, look!" she gasps on first ^ seeing their decrepit bathroom...
...makes a bet. The scene happens to be a meeting of the Humane Society in Houston, but the wager, which is part of his script, could just as easily be offered to a gathering of born-again environmentalists in Aspen, Colo.; at the Los Angeles home of TV producer Norman Lear; or on a college campus. Jeremy Rifkin bets that no one can answer this question: "What value has emerged in the past 100 years as our most dominant value, a value that is the key to our science...
Despite the tension, the scene became like something from a TV situation comedy, with the rebels enjoying a feast of hotel food and the U.S. soldiers resolutely glowering from behind their barricades. Neither side made an attempt to threaten the other. It was, said one of the advisers, a "Mexican standoff," during which they talked to the rebels periodically. "At times it was friendly, at times tense," said another American. Finally, the Auxiliary Bishop of San Salvador, Gregorio Rosa Chavez, mediated the release of the occupants of the hotel and the escape of the rebels. The U.S. soldiers, though, refused...
...graphics are very interesting with simulated 3-D effects which make it very fascinating and lifelike," says Eric Oehler, who provides people walking by Cabot House with a showcaseof Nintendo on his room's big screen TV...