Word: visualizing
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...after television cameras were allowed on the floor, the Senate Rules Committee issued regulations regarding visual aids. Display material can consist of charts, maps or photos, but "artistic renderings" are strictly forbidden -- thus no unflattering caricatures of Phil Gramm. Originally, displays could be no larger than 24 in. by 30 in. This was changed when Senator Ted Stevens asserted that the rules did not accommodate maps of his large home state, Alaska; the current maximum is 36 in. by 48 in. There are no rules regarding size on the House side, where the Speaker has the authority to decide whether...
...pleasures of this movie are too many to recount. The film works on so many levels at the same time that at moments you don't know what has hit you. Photographed by Stuart Dryburgh, "The Piano" is visually stunning, but its beauty is not of the empty picture-postcard kind. The visual texture of the movie is integral to Campion's vision. Michael Nyman has issued a haunting score that captures the essence of each character...
...witnesses, either firsthand or at the remove of film or TV, must supply their own contexts to make sense of what they are seeing. Faced with something new in their visual experiences, they are likely to jump to questionable conclusions. After watching three comet fragments pound, at around 130,000 m.p.h., into Jupiter's dense atmosphere, Steve Maran, an understandably elated NASA astronomer, called the sight "the greatest one-two-three punch of all time." Meanwhile, Filippo Grandi, director of emergency aid for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, surveyed the unimaginable conditions around Goma, % the sleepy Zairean border town...
...Rwandan refugees filled infinitely less space than that taken up by a single explosion on Jupiter. But, paradoxically, images could not begin to convey the immensities and emormities of these settlements. The frame was too small to contain such an expanse of anguish. Photographers had to resort to visual synecdoche, hoping that a small part of the scene -- a wailing child, an emaciated mother, a pile of corpses in a freshly dug trench -- would suggest the horrors of the whole...
...Rwandans, just as the snapshots of Jupiter gave earthlings an invaluable cosmic slide show. The danger of images lies not in the information they carry but rather in our propensity to believe -- once we have seen them -- that we have seen the whole picture. The much heralded visual age is nearly upon us, and we can take justifiable pride in our new abilities to look at each other over long distances and to take close- ups of deep space. We should also remember that images do not come with built-in memories or instructions in how they should be read...