Word: medium
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sometimes difficult to deal sensibly with television. In some people, TV excites grandiose and quasireligious visions -the future zoom of its open-ended possibilities, the way it collapses old relationships of time, space, sight and sound, or can tear up reality and reassemble it to the point that the medium's ambitions seem extravagantly metaphysical. To others, TV is all of civilization's banality crammed into a buzzing home appliance designed to cause brain damage. As a witness to actuality -its "news function"-television can be journalistically incomparable (Newton Minow exempted news from his famous 1961 charge that...
...principle, which says that merely observing an event subtly alters it. Though both are experienced hams, Sadat and Begin knew (as televisionwise antiwar demonstrators of the '60s chanted) that "the whole world is watching." They both understood quite well the effect they were creating; they consciously used the medium. Golda Meir said later: "I am not sure whether in the end they will get the Nobel, but for certain both should get the Oscar." Yet the very nature of the event and the presence of the medium enlarged their behavior and their gestures-which in this case were gestures...
...easing of antitrust regulations that would permit small-and medium-size steel companies to form joint ventures to develop advanced technology-for example, designing new rolling mills or coke ovens...
Much of "Let's Get Small" is very funny, but Martin could produce a much funnier album if he kept himself within the limitations of the medium. By cutting a record from a live performance that often relied on visual jokes, Martin has diminished the quality of his album...
Tamara Mitchell--Kirkland JCR at 8:30. New England Conservatory Medium Rare Big Band--Jordan Hall at 8:00. Eric Rosenblith and David Hagan--Kresge Auditorium at 8:00 MIT Choral Society--Sacred Heart Church, 47 Sixth Street, East Cambridge...