Word: afterthoughts
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...years (he announced his retirement after Fanny), is a chamber piece: four characters, 10 dialogues. Yet Bergman, who turns 87 this month, gives the story such vigor and rigor, so much emotional bile and spilled blood, that it would shame a much younger director. Here is no mild afterthought to which a critic nods indulgently. This is a testament of love and anguish from the man who used to be called the greatest living filmmaker. Well, dammit, he was. And, as Saraband proves, he still...
...Harvard, a Congressman, a Senator and a Governor of Massachusetts as well as a Secretary of State and a minister to England, was chosen to deliver the principal address at the dedication of the new national cemetery on the battlefield at Gettysburg. Lincoln was invited almost as an afterthought. One man spoke for two hours, the other for two minutes. One speech was printed and distributed in advance and has rarely been read since. The other is one of the most famous compositions in the American language...
With a few prominent exceptions, design in the computer industry has tended to be an afterthought, a matter of fashioning inoffensive shells for cathode-ray tubes. Larry Vollum, a recent California State University graduate, won the first Burroughs design competition with an approach of a deeper sort. His MUSE prototype, a small computer grafted onto a versatile high-tech music stand, is the equivalent of a word processor for composers, performers, students and teachers. It enables them to add, change or erase notes and chords at will, add rhythm accompaniment, and play back part or all of a composition...
...Minneapolis-based Bill Stumpf, 50, chairs, especially office chairs, have been neither a sideline nor a flashy aesthetic afterthought. The Miesian, Eamesian, entirely worthy benchmark Stumpf set for himself years ago was "to make a beautiful chair comfortable." He accomplished that by drawing on more than a decade of careful thought about chairs--not just how they ought to look, but how officeworkers lean and squirm and relax while sitting in them. Stumpf's Ergon (1976) and Equa (1984) are the two most important chairs, surely, of the past quarter-century, handsome, generous and deeply elegant. They are also ubiquitous...
...from being an afterthought of the summit, as it seemed to many at the time, it was in fact carefully thought out, the result of 15 months of tough negotiations and 65 meetings in Moscow. On the U.S. side, President Reagan, that old-time actor, was a firm supporter of an accord that he said would create "genuine constituencies for peace." On the Soviet side, there has been what one State Department official terms "a marked change in attitude. They have taken an active, positive role. There is an altogether different attitude." Hermann also detects their keen desire to make...