Word: alter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like cloying affectation masquerading as insight, then you will enjoy the much hyped Bridget Jones's Diary. The alter ego of London journalist Helen Fielding, Bridget is a bundle of frail funk, preoccupied by short skirts, long nails and yo-yo dieting. She has mother issues, toxic-married-men issues, smoking issues and VCR-programming issues. She affects irony, so you know she is deadly serious about her postfeminist problems--find a gym, find a guy, find a low-cal chocolate. If only she would find a life. And a brain...
...21st century. As we hurtle toward it, digital technology's dizzying capacity to shuffle, combine, alter and duplicate images and words raises ever more daunting questions for the arts. "We can scarcely calculate," critic George Steiner has remarked, "the mutations in our experience of texts, music and art in the new worlds of the CD-ROM, of virtual reality, of cyberspace and the Internet...
...have very little role as to the outcome....There is no way a chair, even if she or he wanted to, could significantly alter the course of events," says Leo Damrosch, chair of the English department...
More intriguing, APS film is "correctable" in that it has a magnetic strip that can be used to record picture information about lighting conditions, flash use and other variables in addition to basics like date and picture number. In theory, these data allow photo processors to alter pictures after the fact when used in APS cameras that are "ix" (information exchange) models. These cameras cost more than $100, often much more. Another hitch: not all APS film processors have the right equipment to take advantage of that info...
...show and that we (along with everyone else but Truman) know is fake. Occasionally we watch "viewers" of the show, in their home or a bar, reacting to some dramatic moment. And at times we watch Christof and his crew directing the show. Weir, like his alter ego Christof, lays the process of magicmaking and manipulation open before us. Here's how we do it, people: music and mirrors...