Word: virtually
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...charmingly disheveled physics student who creates a void in his basementthat transports him to different parallel universes every week. Elsewhere, Showtime has just launched a revival of the 1960s anthology series The Outer Limits (Sundays, 10 p.m. est), which will prey on fears of everything from alien organisms to virtual reality. These shows are joining a sizable armada of sci-fi programming already on the air, ranging from nbc's SeaQuest DSV and Earth 2 to the syndicated Star Trek sequels, as well as the fare offered on cable's Sci-Fi Channel, now seen in over 18 million homes...
VR.5 is the real standout among these new series in part because it does not succumb to campiness. The show revolves around the treacherous cyber-exploits of Sydney Bloom (Lori Singer), an emotionally deadened young woman who can travel through her computer into a virtual universe in which she can tap into the minds of other people. A genius in a T shirt and Timberlands, Sydney has devised this technology herself, but she cannot control the environments she enters. As a result, she often finds herself in peril. Neverthe-less, she is unable to stay in the real world...
...achievement, and a conspicuous one, to create a $2 billion corporation in a few months. It is another to sustain it. The carcasses of Orion, Zoetrope, the Ladd Co. and a dozen more litter the off-ramps of the Hollywood Freeway. In the next decade or so, plenty more virtual studios will get lost in cyberspace...
...Kurds who had turned their enclave in northern Iraq and parts of Turkey, Iran and Syria into a virtual semiautonomous state, the infighting is tragic. It is almost entirely the product of animosity between two men leading rival parties who are deeply jealous of each other. "This struggle for power is as personal as it can get," says a Pentagon analyst. When the Kurds held an election for an autonomous government to run Kurdistan in 1992, Barzani's Kurdistan Democratic Party and Talabani's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan split the vote, forcing them to accept coalition rule. Last May open...
...Rushing to Washington on March 10, he found his $1 billion contract with Iran under attack from all sides. Not only was Christopher loudly opposing the deal, but Alfonse D'Amato, who chairs the Senate Banking Committee, was using it to escalate his two-month-old crusade for a virtual halt to all American commerce with Iran. While U.S. oil firms have long been barred from buying Iranian crude oil, their foreign subsidiaries are free to purchase it and sell it abroad...