Word: widely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when, as Woody Allen memorably shows us, we simply are wrong. I recognize, of course, that Ellison didn't reject my argument in the way McLuhan rejected the professor's; while "no conscious reference to Garvey" may have been intended, Ellison did considerately leave the realm of his unconscious wide open to academic scrutiny. Unfortunately, I'm no psychoanalyst...
...their way from Sony, RCA, Panasonic and about 10 other manufacturers to showroom floors--and the first digital broadcasts will begin in a little over a month. This much anticipated debut would seem to be terrific news for tube lovers. As promised, the sets deliver supersharp digital pictures, wide-format movie-style screens and magnificent stereo surround sound. And thanks to the content-neutral nature of digital signals--"Bits are bits," they like to say in TV circles these days--you could wind up seeing web pages and e-mail on your HDTV...
Most reassuring of all, the new sets will be able to pick up conventional TV broadcasts. You won't need two TV sets sitting side by side. Will that be enough to talk consumers into putting down the better part of $10,000? Manufacturers hope that wide-eyed excitement over this genuinely revolutionary new technology will help hide the fact that it's still a work in progress. Realistically, they expect the revolution to be a slow...
Roddy McDowall always had a good face for the movies. A crisp combination of British refinement and wide-eyed innocence, the McDowall mien was lovable enough in the '40s for "Lassie Come Home" to launch Roddy as a child star. Later, it was solemn enough for "The Greatest Story Ever Told," and brightly sinister enough for villainy in 1968's "Five Card Stud." But McDowall, who died of cancer on Saturday at age 70, knew full well what role he'd finally be remembered for: Dr. Cornelius in "Planet of the Apes." And his face, of course, had nothing...
NATO may be shaping up to strike the Serbs in Kosovo, but it's also giving President Slobodan Milosevic a wide escape route. Hoping to force a cease-fire without actually firing a shot, U.S. special envoy Richard Holbrooke shuttled between Belgrade and Kosovo Tuesday promoting a deal in which negotiations over the region's final political status are deferred for three years...