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...playing computer games is among your supreme joys, the $3,148 Presario 8712 is for you. With 6 MB of memory to enhance video quality and an 8X CD-ROM drive, everything onscreen looks better. The JBL Pro Premium speakers and subwoofer deliver terrific sound for playing such included titles as Descent II, MechWarrior 2 and Yukon Trail. The 3.8-GB hard drive gives you enough room to load dozens of programs, and the Pentium-200 processor and 32 MB of ram offer enough power to run any game on the market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HARDWARE | 11/25/1996 | See Source »

...seems a lost work of Chekhov's. It's a handsome artifact, though, on its $5 million budget, and gives star treatment to Imogen Stubbs, who is Nunn's wife. "It's a welcome break from the American kind of film realism," she says of Twelfth Night. "When acting onscreen, you're often asked not to act; you're exploited for some quality the director sees in you. But in Shakespeare, you are forced to act--to tell the audience, 'This is a character. This is a play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: SUDDENLY SHAKESPEARE | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

Though he keeps attacking his opponent as "liberal, liberal, liberal," Bob Dole cleverly staked out a position to the left of rival Bill Clinton last week--on the TV screen, that is. In the annals of televised presidential debates, geography is destiny. The candidate who appeared onscreen to the left of his major-party opponent in the first debate has typically won the election. The one exception: Ronald Reagan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN NOTEBOOK | 10/21/1996 | See Source »

...onscreen sisterhood worked fine, but Wilson didn't forget he was dealing with three big stars. "I was Solomon-like with this thing," he says. "If one got a close-up, everyone got a close-up. I'd count lines and say, 'This scene is really good for her, so the next one should be good for someone else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD'S BEST REVENGE | 10/7/1996 | See Source »

...trio, Hawn's character clings most tenaciously to youth, but the actress herself says she wasn't worried about showing her years onscreen. "What are you trying to protect?" she asks. "A career? A perception? I mean, we've been around the block a hundred times. What the hell?" Keaton agrees: "I can't play the younger babe. I was just happy to have the part, and I'm not kidding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD'S BEST REVENGE | 10/7/1996 | See Source »

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