Word: circuits
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...ballet Bad Smells, Tharp used a snoopily aggressive closed- circuit video camera to chart her dancers' every move, projecting close-up images on an overhead TV screen. Anderson's works, such as her two-evening epic United States, Parts I-IV (1983) or her 1985 stage show Home of the Brave, play off the television culture that gave them birth. Indeed, some avantgardists have made the television screen their preferred medium, like Korean-born Video Artist Nam June Paik, who amasses hundreds of video monitors in assemblages. When Byrne, driving along the Texas highways in his red 1985 Chrysler...
...leading the discounting binge, the Japanese have grabbed customers away from U.S. rivals. As recently as 1982, the American share of the global market for integrated circuits, which include the most advanced and widely used types of semiconductors, stood at 49.1%, compared with Japan's 26.9%. At the end of this year, Japan is expected to have taken the lead with 38% of circuit sales, vs. 35.5% for the U.S., according to In-Stat, an Arizona-based research firm...
Skating on the international circuit has even created possibilities for a little East-West diplomacy. When Wylie competed in another world competition in Canada, he had a chance to skate against some of the top Russian and East German figure skaters. "We sat down once, and had a couple [of shots] after a competition," he says, "but [the Russian skaters] just didn't stop with one or two. They just kept going. It was amazing...
...Peyser agrees. In horror, he says, "we see an ordered world. We know it really isn't real, and we can master it. It's fantasy, and we can get out." It is no wonder then that videocassettes like I Dismember Mama and Halloween are favorites on the rental circuit, that Aliens and Friday the 13th, Part VI: Jason Lives were among the top movie grossers of the summer, and that, in paperback, Stephen King now outsells James Michener and Robert Ludlum...
Free tickets for Aquino's 2 p.m. speech at Sanders Theater will be available from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., September 15 and 17, in the lobby of Coolidge Hall to all people with Harvard ID's. Her address will be broadcast be closed circuit TV in Science Center lecture halls for viewing by members of the general public...