Word: formatting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...video portion of the show cannot satisfactorily answer this question. Most of these seemingly cursory pieces are short and lack depth. They have little sense of motion and progression--most of them could have easily been done in the format of a slide show. The artists are more interested in playing with camera angles and techni-color than producing a framed or cohesive work...
Writing a provocative newspaper column is an invitation to be egregiously wrong in public -- at least some of the time. Take the man who is America's best practitioner of the art of columny: succinctly melding fact and opinion in an unforgiving 770-word format. Even though in a parade of predictions in late 1988 he called the fall of the Berlin Wall, this Pulitzer-prizewinning pundit also flatly asserted last March that the Soviet Union would never brook Eastern Europe's attempts at independence. "Depend on Mr. Gorbachev to crack down as Mr. Stalin would have, fraternally rolling...
These days, with his Lincoln labors behind him, Safire is writing his column with brio at an age when most columnists give way to pretentious punditry. Last week Safire returned for the first time in 13 months to a format that has become a personal trademark: a mind-reading column that provocatively depicts Kremlin politics through Gorbachev's inner thoughts. This Gorbachev, still a wily foe of the West, miraculously shares Safire's gift for language, describing his political philosophy as "improvisationism" and his goal as creating in Europe "a Balance of Impotence until Russia can rebuild." That...
Most likely to bring Elvis back to life. With revolutionary speed, music lovers are replacing their favorite old scratched-up 45s and 33s with shiny compact discs. The complete works of almost all major artists, from Rachmaninoff to the Rolling Stones, are being released in the new format. At up to $18 a pop, CDs are costly, but the tones they produce are astonishingly crisp and clear. Pressed between CDs and cassette tapes, the venerable vinyl long-playing record is being relegated to memory lane...