Word: screening
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...through the summer without seeing at least one movie at the Loew's Nickeldeon, on Church St., as its six screens are home for Hollywood's latest releases. It also is home for the cult favorite, "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," which graces the screen every Friday and Saturday at midnight. Rocky Horror comes complete with live action in the aisles, so don't forget your waterguns...
...broken ranks. The July issue of Macworld, an independently owned magazine for users of Apple Macintosh computers, features a cover story by Brodeur and an analysis of the magnetic fields generated by ten popular monitors. The results are disturbing. At a % distance of 10 cm (4 in.) from the screen, Macworld measured emissions that were, in some cases, ten times as high as those linked with cancer in children...
According to Brodeur, the main problem is the coil that controls the vertical movement of electrons bombarding the screen. The strongest emissions, it turns out, are from the sides, the backs and the tops of the monitors, suggesting that users could be at greater risk from their co-workers' machines than from their own. Until the Government sets standards for so-called extremely low frequency (ELF) emissions, Macworld suggests that users keep their monitors at arm's length and position themselves at least twice that distance from their nearest neighbor's machine...
...I.R.A. still has a youth wing to instruct the sons and daughters of Republican families in Irish history, teach them the shadowy rules of urban guerrilla warfare and screen them for paramilitary service. John, 16, joined the youth wing when he was 13, and his early years mainly consisted of reading books, learning Gaelic and, to his frustration, painting posters and marching. "We've been protesting for 20 years against the Brits, and they've never taken any heed," he says. "They take heed...
Silber's voice resonates in part because he has no political filter. He moves through life like a heat-seeking missile, careering from one trajectory to another as new targets appear on his screen. He believes in absolutes. He abhors moral relativism and what others call "values." "A person who believes in having sexual relationships with children has values," he snaps in a clipped Texas baritone. "He puts a high value on pedophilia...