Word: reals
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...real story, in any case, is not Gore's fight in the primaries against Bill Bradley, but rather Gore's battle with himself - his struggle to subdue his demon of weird things, the dybbuk that, for example, made him wear that necktie last night (it looked like a poisonous snake from Brazil, or a a preschooler's Crayola work) or that prompts him to claim, from time to time, to have invented electricity, Velcro, or the fax machine...
...train might not run anyway, though, because the weather has been simply awful. Due to a bungled forecast, municipalities and airports were caught off guard by the largest snowstorm of the season so far. Many first-years from California have probably never experienced a real Nor'easter before and are finding their flimsy designer hats inadequate. But unlike me, they're probably going home for intersession...
...after you've played with Photoshop for a while that you realize how easy it is--and how scary it is--to use; after all, if a first-time user can do reasonably good work, imagine how well the pros could alter the images we intuitively take to be real...
...pros were busy at their computers Dec. 31, when countless hours of network coverage purported to show the millennial celebrations around the globe. Instead, at least one network showed you what it wanted you to see. Image editing technology has now progressed far enough to enable real-time editing of television, and CBS made good use of it. In its live coverage of Times Square, the network digitally deleted an NBC advertisement on a large TV screen and substituted its own logo instead. The new logo looked perfectly natural--it just wasn't there...
Neither CBS erasing its competitors nor Harvard trying to disguise Serbia is as pernicious as, say, Stalin airbrushing Trotsky out of group photos. But all attempts to change images prey on the tendency of humans to trust the camera, to assume that whatever they see is real. The loss of that trust is perhaps one of the more worrisome consequences of a few minutes' play in Photoshop...