Word: processing
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...year as music director, Seiji Ozawa is currently the world's longest serving conductor of any major orchestra. With Ozawa at its helm, the BSO attains a balance that might seem impossible for other contemporary symphonies--a balance between high sales in tickets and high quality in programming. The process of choosing a repertoire can be as political as it is musical, an inimical intersection between the vision of a governing board concerned with fund raising and a conductor concerned with musical integrity. But Ozawa's long tenure offers some relief--and a certain degree of autonomy. When the spry...
...progressing to the larger issue of what lies outside the Pleasantville universe. As the semi-robotic citizens gradually come to life, splashes of color begin to permeate the black-and-white world--not all at once or to everyone, but by steps and degrees, delightful in their unpredictability. The process is best represented in the paintings of Jeff Daniels' inarticulate soda-shoppe proprietor, whose self-expression increases in richness and assurance as his palate of colors expands. But just as you think you know where the story's going, it takes a darker turn and the allegory deepens...
...more expensive prints were purchased through an engraver, who either sold you the actual engraving plate (at a much more expensive price) or a single print off the plate. One could purchase the cheaper "etching," a process in which the artist scratched out places that he wanted to appear dark upon printing on a metal plate, or the more expensive "engraving." Engravings involved much more skill on the part of the artist; it took many years to train the hand to hold the carving utensil that shaped the metal beneath...
Power is the first to admit that at this point in the process the University has as many questions unanswered as answered about the specifics of the project...
WASHINGTON: Call it the Arlen Specter solution. As the impeachment process begins to collapse for want of GOP support, the Republican senator (and former prosecutor) from Pennsylvania is trying to convince his colleagues that presidential punishment, like revenge, is a dish best served cold. Specter's plan: Wait until Bill Clinton leaves office in 2001, then prosecute him as a regular citizen for perjury and obstruction of justice -? presuming, of course, that Clinton's successor does not pardon him first. If the GOP can just cool its heels, Specter says, a jail sentence for the President is "a distinct possibility...