Word: vision
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...over for parties. He's still close with ex-girlfriend Ali Dickson, who helped him build his charitable foundation. Last year, at a press conference announcing he'd be giving $1 million a year to child-abuse charities, he wept: he's got that gentle giant thing down. His vision is so bad (20/500) that his 1990 first baseman's Gold Glove award for defensive play sits in the office of his optometrist. He cried during Driving Miss Daisy. You want to hug this guy. Or at least get your arms as far around him as they...
...more typical war epic, a virtuoso end in itself. For Spielberg it is something to build on, not build toward, and that says much about his confidence as a filmmaker and the stubborn, instructive earnestness with which he approached Saving Private Ryan. To him, this carnage--his vision of which has moved strong men to run from the screening room and caused the Motion Picture Association of America to give the film an unusual (for the director of E.T. and Raiders of the Lost Ark) R rating--is merely context, one of the premises on which the delicately nuanced "morality...
...mile-high tidal wave.) Armageddon, the summer's other film in the Earth-threatened-by-space-debris genre, ends with Bruce Willis telling young-stud Ben Affleck to "take good care of my little girl" and then, during a stressful moment involving a nuclear weapon, having a vision of his little girl (Liv Tyler) in her wedding dress. The message here is: Explosions are cool, and so are sappy dads who normally hide their mushy sides behind tough-guy dialogue like "Let's chew this iron bitch...
...That vision, called "distributed" or "ubiquitous" computing, is suddenly getting very real. Last week brought notice of Sun Microsystems' new software platform, called Jini, which brings the era of distributed computing from sometime in the hazy future to about Christmas 1999. That's how long it will take for Sun to release details of the Jini software (due within months) to its electronics partners (there are 30 already) so they can then build the first Jini-compatible products, from cell phones to PC peripherals...
...feminist leader. Which is it? It seems to me a sad state of affairs when every young woman who writes about culture is judged on whether she is a "good feminist." Women should be judged for the individual voices we are, not for whether we conform to an outdated vision of what a good feminist is. It is a sign that feminism has not died, but rather has succeeded to an amazing extent, that young female critics don't have to be as single-minded or rigid as Gloria Steinem or Germaine Greer. Today we can express as divergent views...