Word: video
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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North, who studied theater in college, videotaped each participant in the EXPO expressing his or her opinion on how to speak in class. Participants then critiqued each other's speaking style and tone of voice while watching the video...
...cables and machined steel parts, turn the steering wheel and work other controls. The "driver" sits up to a mile or so away in front of a panel with one or two joysticks or a steering wheel and a small TV screen, manipulating the vehicle like someone playing a video game. Light vehicles carry gear that pinpoints the location of the mines for later destruction. Alternatively, tanks push heavy rollers or a metal contraption called a flail that can destroy mines directly. If a big mine blows up the vehicle instead...well, no human is hurt...
...taken into overseas markets in the past three years. By many measures it is not exactly small: its sales have grown from $300,000 a year to nearly $87 million. But a niche company it certainly is. It engineers, sets up and maintains electronic communications systems of all kinds--video conferencing, for example. Its specialty is maintaining air-to-ground communications for airports on behalf of the Federal Aviation Administration. As Malkani describes it, "We go and we test. We say when the systems have to be upgraded, and with what equipment...
...brainer" piece of pop entertainment. Unlike most of the other big productions of the year, it is neither a sequel nor the launching point of a series of sequels. It is not based on a comic book. It was not designed to spawn a vast array of toys, merchandising, video games and theme-park attractions. It is an earnest and heartfelt work. But the same voices that decry the formulaic commercialism of mainstream Hollywood product do not seem to applaud the studio heads who had the courage to back this unusual film...
Jackson, De Niro...Grier? If you watch Grier's blaxploitation flicks, you can see what Tarantino may have seen in her (MGM is re-releasing both Coffy and Foxy Brown on video, rechristening them "Soul Cinema"). In her most popular films, Grier played a strong woman out for revenge. "This is the end of your rotten life, you motherf___ing dope pusher," she cries in Coffy before blowing a dealer's head off. Grier was a woman of action well before Thelma met Louise, or Ripley encountered aliens. In 1975 Ms. magazine put her on its cover. She was also...