Word: printing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first practical means to print photos on a newspaper page, called the halftone process, did not come into widespread use until the 1890s. Until then, most readers had to content themselves with engravings copied from photographs. Meanwhile, the bulky camera gear of the 19th century hardly lent itself to instant coverage. In the cumbersome wet-plate process, which became the norm in the mid-1850s, pictures were formed on a sheet of glass that had to be coated with an emulsion just before the exposure, then developed at once. Action shots were ruled out by the lengthy exposure times, several...
Those who take as gospel everything in print have this year been asked to believe that History is over. They have been told that Science may soon be gone as well. And New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis '48 has given them an apocalyptic view with a column on "The End of Forever...
...dispute illustrates how difficult it is for the broadcast and print media to build a national following among U.S. Hispanics, a geographically scattered group comprising many nationalities. "It's hard to cover all the Hispanic markets because they are so different," says Joel Russell, former senior editor of Hispanic Business. "A publication has to have one article about Chicanos in Texas, one about Cubans in Florida, one about Puerto Ricans in New York. It's too nebulous a focus...
...independents have reason to worry about a different kind of temptation. It is called The Reader's Catalog, a large-format, 1,382-page paperback ($24.95) describing more than 40,000 books in print, covering 208 categories ranging from Egyptian literature to sports. Readers can order selections by mail, toll-free telephone or even fax machine. The Catalog is the brainchild of Jason Epstein, editorial director of Random House, who is publishing it privately. The idea, says Epstein, arose out of his own frustration: "There wasn't enough shelf space in the stores." He is counting on the convenience...
...small print to the right were columns representing the five criteria used in the rankings: academic reputation, student selectivity, retention patterns, faculty quality and financial resources...