Word: screening
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...overheard conversations involve looks-except the conversations about gunfights, which remind us that violence is a possible outcome of any story unfolding on screen. It works. I constantly expected someone to shoot themselves or someone else in a fit of enigmatic French passion...
Memory and preservation are familiar themes for Hulsey. Back in her room, the walls are plastered with old painting and silk-screen projects. Some of the most interesting ones play with repeated photographic images, printed one after another in bright, messy hues. Hulsey particularly likes one piece in which she multiplies an old photograph of a woman fishing into a veritable army of women: it strikes her as being both "strong" and "pretty," a paradoxical combination of "warfare" and "leisure." Equally intriguing is a series in which she repeats silkscreens of turn-of-the-century photographs of her great-grandparents...
...sophomore, he led the Whalers' baseball team to the state championship game at Fenway Park, where he homered into the screen above the Green Monster...
...increased sensitivity, and some would argue censorship, on campus. Reduced to its essence, however, this argument seems more of a cop-out and less of an actual explanation as to why public dialogue about the Middle East situation is absent on the average undergraduate's radar screen...
EASY READER It was just a matter of time before they invented a touch-screen handheld for kids. The C-Book Reader ($50) may actually help the little ones learn to read. The device, which will go on sale in early 2001, runs animated stories from cartridges. Among the first six titles are Disney's Winnie the Pooh and 101 Dalmatians. Kids can read the text, flip page by page along with the narration or watch a primitive animated version. For Mom and Dad's sake, the reader comes with a headphone jack...