'TRIANGLE' TRAPS UNAWARE VIEWERS.Byline: David Kronke TV Critic SCI (Scalable Coherent Interface) An IEEE standard for a high-speed bus that uses wire or fiber-optic cable. It can transfer data up to 1GBytes/sec. (hardware) SCI - 1. Scalable Coherent Interface. 2. UART. FI'S MINISERIES ``The Triangle'' opens pretty niftily, with Christopher Columbus sailing toward the New World in the South Atlantic in 1492, where his ships are almost crushed by a 21st-century American freighter. The Nina, Pinta Pinta Definition A bacterial infection of the skin which causes red to bluish-black colored spots. Description Pinta is a skin infection caused by the bacterium Treponema carateum and Santa Maria Santa Maria, city, Brazil Santa Maria (sän`tə mərē`ə), city (1991 pop. 217,592), Rio Grande do Sul state, S Brazil. It is a major railroad terminus and the site of an important military base. are coursing through the Bermuda Triangle, see, and folklore dictates that what happens to vessels traversing that area is bizarre. Or, of course, tragic. ``The Triangle's'' next conceit is almost as goofy as its first is inspired: Shipping magnate Eric Benirall (Sam Neill) recruits a motley gang of four to investigate the Bermuda Triangle's science and mythology. Who does he choose? Disgraced tabloid reporter Howard Thomas (Eric Stoltz), unemployed ``deep ocean'' engineer Emily Patterson (Catherine Bell), diminished psychic Stan Lathem (Bruce Davison) and extreme meteorologist/adventurer Bruce Geller (Michael Rodgers). Things look even more dubious when Stoltz's character, ostensibly os·ten·si·ble adj. Represented or appearing as such; ostensive: His ostensible purpose was charity, but his real goal was popularity. a Bermuda Triangle expert, cites several real-life incidents, but gets particulars wrong. (Example: Columbus experienced odd occurrences within the Triangle, but none as curious or deadly as Howard suggests.) Nonetheless, this is precisely the ragtag rag·tag adj. 1. Shaggy or unkempt; ragged. 2. Diverse and disorderly in appearance or composition: "They're a small ragtag army of racketeers, bandits, and murderers" bunch - sorry: crack professional unit - you want delving into the darkest mysteries of the planet. Still, ``The Triangle,'' executive-produced by Brian Singer (``X-Men,'' ``House'') and Dean Devlin (``Independence Day''), turns out to be a more-than-serviceably clever yarn, a really gnarly (jargon) gnarly - /nar'lee/ Both obscure and hairy. "Yow! - the tuned assembler implementation of BitBlt is really gnarly!" From a similar but less specific usage in surfer slang. episode of ``The X-Files'' writ large. When our unlikely heroes venture out into the Triangle, they're intercepted by interlopers INTERLOPERS. Persons who interrupt the trade of a company of merchants, by pursuing the same business with them in the same place, without lawful authority. of unknown origin, and afterward the irrealities seem to have multiple contradictory phases. This puts them in league with Meeno Paloma (Lou Diamond Phillips), a Greenpeace activist who was the sole survivor of a Triangle storm and is unnerved by the capricious nature of his own life - does he have one son? Or two? Or does his family even exist anymore? Keeping with the theme of multiple possibilities, the finale simultaneously manages to be ludicrous and kind of cool at the same time. ``The Triangle'' represents time-wasting at its absolute finest. David Kronke,(818) 713-3638 david.kronke(at)dailynews.com THE TRIANGLE - Three stars What: Miniseries settling, once and for all, what's up with the Bermuda Triangle, as explained by Eric Stoltz, Catherine Bell, Bruce Davison, Lou Diamond Phillips, Sam Neill and lots of special effects. Where: Sci Fi Channel Sci Fi Channel may refer to:
When: Part 1: 9 and 11 p.m. and 1 a.m. tonight, 7 p.m. Tuesday. Part 2: 9 and 11 p.m. and 1 a.m. Tuesday, 7 p.m. Wednesday. Part 3: 9 and 11 p.m. and 1 a.m. Wednesday, 7 p.m. Thursday. All three episodes shown back to back 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday. In a nutshell: Splashy splash·y adj. splash·i·er, splash·i·est 1. Making or likely to make splashes. 2. Covered with splashes of color. 3. Showy; ostentatious. See Synonyms at showy. and clever. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Eric Stoltz, left, and Bruce Davison get soaked in their search for answers to an oceanic mystery in the Sci Fi Channel original miniseries ``The Triangle.'' |
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