Word: program
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...displays live video of a real Ouija board controlled by the collective mouse strokes of as many as 20 people simultaneously logged on to the site. Another piece, Every Icon, shows a seemingly simple-looking grid that is 32 squares high and wide. Its creator, John Simon, devised a program that cycles through the trillions of ways the grid could be filled with black and white squares--a metaphor for Net art's endless creative possibilities...
Crowell is given credit for getting the TVA ready for the era of deregulation. And Hayes, who was head of Tennessee's economic development agency before becoming champion of the TVA's low-interest-loan program, did much to boost local companies. But Hayes, watchdog Smith contends, was put in the agency by Gore mainly "as a placeholder until he popped up the other side, once Gore needed some real fund raising." An earthy, onetime insurance man from Sideview, Tenn., Hayes mounted his 1962 pickup and drove Gore from fish fry to cattle show during his first congressional race...
...challenges go beyond memorizing lines. To allow multiple camera angles, the production will use 16 cameras, including several onscreen, disguised as computers and operated by cameramen in soldiers' fatigues. And as part of the program's good-for-you austerity, there will be no musical score, so emotion will have to be earned without strings or drums. There are some safeguards. The war-room set features a giant electronic map, synched to the dialogue. "We have a guy with a keyboard ready, so if an actor misses a line, he can instantly update the map," Clooney says...
...Edenic myth that since the 1950s, TV has charted a direct course to hell. Many of the decisions--from shooting in black and white to having Walter Cronkite introduce the production--are like penance for the past. And no such apologies are necessary. Playhouse 90 was a wonderful program, but there's a difference between creating TV and broadcasting theater, between using the medium as a unique art form and using it as a mere tool...
When No Doubt first took its music to Los Angeles radio station K-ROQ in 1992, the message from the grunge-obsessed program director was not your polite kiss-off: "It will take an act of God for this band to get on the radio." The Lord works in mysterious ways. Grunge fell off the cultural cliff, and No Doubt's mix of punk, pop and ska alchemized into the carefree, radio-friendly sound of the mid-'90s. Tragic Kingdom sold 15 million copies and turned singer Gwen Stefani into the It Girl for teenagers of both sexes...