Word: outer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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TALES OF THE LOST FORMICANS. If not the best new play of recent years, surely this is the most imaginative. Constance Congdon's brilliant off-Broadway script wryly deflects the story of a man with Alzheimer's disease into a travel guide to Middle America conducted by aliens from outer space...
...found comfort in raging against the injustice of East Coast elitism. My problem was that by my senior year in high school, I was already an insufferable East Coast snob. So by the social standards of suburban Connecticut in the mid-1960s, the multiple rejections consigned me to the outer darkness, destined to be shunned on commuter trains, blackballed at country clubs and never allowed to buy a home in a community with four-acre zoning. I would have to plod through life stigmatized by the knowledge that I had been judged "Not Ivy League material...
...conventional 3-D movie, it creates by a process known as stereopsis an artificial three-dimensional space that seems to jut out from the screen. As an object in that space approaches the viewer, it becomes larger and larger. If it gets big enough to reach the outer edges of the picture, however, it will appear to snap back to the plane of the screen, sending conflicting depth cues to the brain and destroying the 3-D illusion. The advantage of the wraparound Solido theater is that the edges of the screen are beyond the audience's field of view...
...these the makings of another '50s-style 3-D movie boom? Probably not. The backlist of conventional 3-D films is still pretty limited, and titles like It Came from Outer Space and Friday the 13th Part 3 have not improved with age. Imax Systems has installed a 3-D theater in Vancouver and has plans to build two more, in Galveston, Texas, and Taiwan, but there are no plans yet to put them in typical suburban malls. Moreover, as glorious as the new technology may seem today, it is likely to be perceived by an increasingly jaded public...
...speak, we pass the U.S. embassy, smaller than the U.S.S.R.'s, less imposing, and, with its picture-window display of satellite views from outer space, it seems even less relevant to these new East Europeans...