Word: screens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...portable version of the popular machine. This week Apple will finally unveil one. The delay was caused by the difficulty of producing a lightweight Mac with a graphics display as vivid as the larger models'. To achieve that clarity, insiders say, the new machine has an active- matrix screen, in which each of its thousands of picture elements will be controlled by an individual transistor. Instead of Apple's famous mouse, the new Mac has a cursor-control device called a trackball mounted on the keyboard...
...dirty rat." Everybody knows that screen gangster James Cagney uttered these words in one of his myriad movies. Or did he? Apparently not, say the authors of They Never Said It, a recently published compendium of oft-quoted misquotes and misattributions...
...said, "You hiccup in Beirut, and it's on the living room screen in Keokuk, Iowa, That fundamentally changes the audience for news...
...157r, "Classics of East European Cinema (1949-1989)," for example, brings the iron curtain to the silver screen. Taught by Film Archive Curator Vladimir K. Petric, the course will feature several American premieres, released from Eastern Europe only recently under glasnost. "It will be interesting to see how artists tried to express something hidden--in this case, between the images," Petric says...
...said, "You hiccup in Beirut, and it's on the living room screen in Keokuk, Iowa. That fundamentally changes the audience for news...