Word: viewers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...German science is agog with its exciting discovery of "E rays," which are said to come from deep within the earth and cause cancer and which cannot be detected by any known scientific instrument. Fortunately, they can be sensed by a dowser carrying a forked willow stick. The trusting viewer in what was the Soviet Union places a bottle of water atop his TV set every morning so that a faith healer can "charge" the contents with curative power via Channel 6. In Finland and Sweden the private, expensive and government- accredited Rudolf Steiner schools teach children to cast horoscopes...
...computer key. "3-D is an old technique," explains Coates, "and computer graphics is a new one. There were no rules for mixing them. We made them up as we went along." The result is a blend of film, computer projections and reality -- whatever that is -- that has the viewer wondering, Is it live, or is it Macintosh...
...spoiled princess who wants the moon, the vengeful bitch, the Lady Bountiful and the tragic hero spoiled by circumstances. Brown manages to bring them together with surprising skill. However, Brown fails to make us see the passionate child that Claire used to be. Looking at Brown, the viewer sees only the narcissistic old woman of the present...
Andrew Watson plays Alfred III, Claire's Childhood Sweet heart. As the rather serious, sentimental mayor-to-be of today, Watson is consummately convincing. But he does not succeed in making the darker side of himself--the coward, the sinner, the betrayer--seem real. The viewer will remember him nonetheless, if only for the violent climax of the first act. To the accompaniment of Gavin Friday's Next, he writhes on stage in an agony of what might be orgasmic ecstasy or wild despair...
Nash has done his best to foster precisely this ambiguity. He includes obvious symbols of mixed sexuality such as a transvestite and a pair of castrated men, as well as more subtle devices. For example, the viewer is fooled by the darkness into believing that a policeman seated at his desk is actually Claire's black panther in cage...