Word: plugs
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Press coverage was all lined up when, as BGLTSA Co-Chair Michael K. T. Tan '01 recounts it, Muhammad pulled the plug, saying he didn't want his situation publicized nationally...
...medium whose greatest promise is in its interactivity, though, the Net art pictured can be frustratingly inaccessible. To view all nine works on a home PC, you must install as many as four software "plug-ins." Even on the exhibition floor, where a system was all set up, a visitor struggled to navigate through one work's flashing sequence of pink and gray screens, giving up after only a few seconds. Clearly, for all its potential, Net art still has a few bugs to work...
...every other way, though, Get Happy is an exemplary attempt to answer the unanswerable question: Why could she never plug the jagged hole in her heart? Much of her appeal lies in our inability to explain away her bottomless neediness. "You can write down everything Lana Turner ever thought and felt and meant, and then put the pencil down," claimed Garland amour Joe Mankiewicz (the director and screenwriter of All About Eve). "That's it, a closed book. But I don't think anybody's going to close the book on Judy Garland." Not even Gerald Clarke--but he comes...
...technology, enabling it to take off and land like a helicopter but fly like a plane - is worth its hefty price tag. But with the unwavering support of congressional delegates from two powerful states (Pennsylvania, where Boeing's helicopter division is based, and Texas, home of Bell Textron) the plug is unlikely to be pulled anytime soon...
...wrestling is more about huge audiences than high art. So when World Wrestling Federation chairman VINCE MCMAHON pulled the plug on commercials for a controversial wrestling documentary that had been scheduled to air during UPN's SmackDown! and USA Network's Sunday Night Heat and Raw Is War, the movie's producers sensed a bid to kill their film. Imagine Entertainment says McMahon has sour grapes because it wouldn't let him buy Beyond the Mat, which was nominated for a Director's Guild award in the Best Director category. A WWF spokesman claims it's a publicity stunt...