Word: adaptibility
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...Design and Sexes sections and part of the World section were created on Vista. Assistant Art Director Anthony J. Libardi and Deputy Layout Chief John F. Geist, who were among the first to train on the machine, are both enthusiastic converts. "It gives you the freedom to revise and adapt quickly," says Libardi. "It can turn the work of hours into as little as 20 minutes." Adds Geist: "It's also great fun to work on." Sums up Leliévre: "All in all, it's an appropriate innovation for the magazine that named the computer Machine...
...BEST WAY TO adapt a play so rooted in its niche of history would be to pare down its length. Full of intrigues, setbacks, and mistaken identities, the tragedy seems almost comical, and certainly cannot sustain either the weight of seriousness or the burden of a three-hour-long performance. As written, the plot goes out of its way to lead all the characters into vengeance's grasp: secondary scenes--like the one which shows the death of the wife of Antonio, a nondescript lord--are tortuous and hinder the rest of the play...
...been working during his eight years in the Senate to shed some of the ideological baggage associated with the ill-fated McGovern campaign. He is included in the somewhat nebulous group known as "neo-liberals," who stress the need for a pragmatic approach by business, labor and Government to adapt the economy to an era of high technology. The theme of the election, he said on a campaign swing through Mississippi after his announcement, is "Who represents the future the best?" Hart has put together reams of position papers (and a book to be published next month) dealing with...
Between 30% and 50% of space voyagers develop SAS, usually in the initial days of a flight. It is not yet possible to determine who is susceptible. Scientists believe the malady is caused by the body's struggle to adapt to the absence of gravity and to disorienting shifts in body positions. As a result the brain receives conflicting information from the eyes and the inner-ear system, which registers pressure changes and affects balance. Says Dr. Philip Johnson, chief of the medical-research branch of the Johnson Space Center in Houston: "In space you receive...
Sting II does adapt from the original and central characters of the criminal hero. Jake Hooker (Mac Davis), and his has-been mentor, Fargo Gondorff (Jackie Gleason). The first gag sets the tone of the movie, when Hooker rushes down to visit Gondorff in what had been described as "a big house with a yard," but is actually a state prison, It never improves...