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...inchoate Internet is already famous for knitting congenial souls together. And as the capacity of phone lines expands, the Net may allow us to, say, play virtual racketball with a sibling or childhood friend in a distant city. But at least in its current form, the Net brings no visual (much less tactile) contact, and so doesn't fully gratify the social machinery in our minds. More generally the Net adds to the information overload, whose psychological effects are still unknown but certainly aren't wholly benign...
...Emerald Forest" earned director John Boorman stripes as an adventurer with an eye for pictorial rapture and social turmoil. But in "Beyond Rangoon," an improbable tale of an American damsel-doctor caught amidst the genocidal Burmese civil war, Boorman "lapses into banal visual stereotyping," saysTIME's Richard Corliss. "The rebels are thin, winsome, saintly, while the nasty soldiers have bad skin and potbellies. And the film simply forfeits belief with its notion that Laura (played by Patricia Arquette), who stumbles through Burma like a girl in a monster movie after she's seen the giant ants, is a physician...
...Republican leadership in Congress means to sever all links between American government and American culture. It wants the Federal Government to give no support at all to music, theater, ballet, opera, film, intelligent television, literature, history, archaeology, museum work, architectural conservation and the visual arts. It intends to abolish federal funding for the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. And it wants to do it tomorrow...
Professor Coolidge was appointed BinghamProfessor, University of Louisville in 1985. Hewas appointed Samuel H. Kress Professor for the1991-1992 academic year at the National Gallery ofArt's Center for Advanced Study in Visual Arts.The position is reserved for a distinguished arthistorian, who, as a senior member of the Center,pursues scholarly work and counsels predoctoralfellows in their dissertation research...
...instance, a physical-therapy professor from San Antonio, Texas, suffered a brain hemorrhage that left a huge blank spot in her otherwise normal field of vision-or, rather, it would be blank if her brain allowed it. First, she saw a drawing of a cat, presumably supplied by her visual memory. "Then," says M.J. Blaschak, "I started to see flowers." Soon cartoon characters like Mickey Mouse began to appear. "I've got to the point where I think they're pretty funny," she says...