Word: users
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cast at Golgotha can be changed and added to; there is even room for Mary Baker Eddy and Dr. Helen Schucman. It is also possible for Jesus to command a good table at Spago. Or, given Vidal's insatiable need to shock, to find himself pinioned by user-friendly nails at the Crucifixion...
THEORIZING THE MOVIE. Morris does not force any of these conclusions on the viewer. He believes that one of the great spectacles the movies have to offer is people sitting around and talking. The visual material he employs to illustrate physical theory is deliberately user-friendly. It does not compete with his splendid talking heads. All of Hawking's friends, relatives and colleagues are located in rooms that look real but are in fact stage settings. There is practical reason for this: controlled lighting. But there is a metaphorical reason too. Each setting is a cosmos, familiar looking...
People who use other people don't always know that they're using them. So says Canadian writer-director Atom Egoyan in his handsome, quirky comedy THE ADJUSTER. Noah Render (Elias Koteas) is one such user, an insurance claims adjuster whose sensitivity to his clients' suffering extends to having sex with nearly all of them, from frowsy couples to purring studs to a burnt-out stunner (the lustrous Jennifer Dale). It makes life tough for Noah's wife (Arsinee Khanjian), a film censor. Both have jobs appraising erotic desires and pathetic dreams; both have a ruthless talent for "sorting things...
...also collaborated with the League of Women Voters on a user-friendly guide to voter registration in all 50 states, which will be distributed at events sponsored by the channel between now and November. In August MTV will air a weekend-long telethon, soliciting registrations instead of money. Viewers will be invited to phone in and speak to celebrities about where they can sign up to vote. "Kids emulate rock stars in everything else," says Soren, "so why not in this...
...newsletter Smart Drugs News, describes popping a couple of Hydergines before drawing up plans for a house renovation: "I walked in and was able to visualize all four levels of the structure at once -- where all the plumbing was, the electrical outlets -- without once referring to the blueprints." Another user recalls instantly becoming "witty and logical" after taking the amino acid pyroglutamate, while a third says that on Hydergine he suddenly could remember ordinary events that had occurred more than 20 years before...