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...past few years one eager start-up after another has rushed in to fill this vacuum, producing nearly 100 online commerce "standards," each vying to be the Web's one and only. Netscape and Microsoft, for their part, have responded by packing more and more proprietary software tricks into their increasingly unwieldy and overburdened browsers...
...made with the film call attention to its lack of content. The sets look artificial and freshly constructed, and there are hardly enough extras milling around to make the ICU resemble an actual hospital ward. At selected moments, all sound other than dialogue is suppressed--people speak in a vacuum as doors slam and gurneys rumble by in utter silence. It's a unnerving device, but by putting a magnifying lens to the dialogue, Lumet only highlights the stilted writing and heightens the sense that he's out of his element...
...current regime has progressed. We hope neither Jiang nor China will shy away from increasing world involvement and the world's democratic influence. Not a few observers have predicted that China, with five times the population of the United States, will fill the economic, political and military power vacuum left by the dissolution of the Soviet Union. In this emerging balance of power, with the stakes as high as economic and military security for all, we hope Beijing does not retreat into defensive isolation...
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, most people expected a burgeoning of political parties to fill the vacuum left by the communists. Parties did emerge, but in the tightly controlled presidential system that was hand-tailored for Yeltsin what counts is access--to the President, to his few closest aides and family members, and to half a dozen or so top government officials...
Digital goofing with old clips has given John Wayne and Fred Astaire the opportunity to sell Coors beer and Dirt Devil vacuum cleaners on TV despite being dead. A more disturbing prospect is represented by a film called Everything's George, which begins shooting this week. It will star George Burns, who is also dead but will nevertheless appear, as himself, with the blessing of his estate. "Five weeks after he died, we already had the rights," boasts producer Paul Greenberg. The screenplay posits Burns as a recent arrival in heaven, a Level One angel desperate to reunite with...