Word: compacting
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...ondes martenot (memorably employed by Maurice Jarre in the score for Lawrence of Arabia), the symphony is like some fabulous beast howling in the collective unconscious of Western civilization. Heard live, it shakes, it roars and it rattles the fundament, compelling the listener to confront unspoken fears; even on compact disc, the force is still with it. And all courtesy of a mild- mannered French church-organ player who liked nothing better than to walk in the woods and listen to the birds...
...Austin last week was freckles-fritters-and-fried-chicken America: elderly retirees, earnest young men and women in ROSS FOR BOSS T shirts, and a sprinkling of former Vietnam POWS in black shirts as a reminder of their suffering. As the patriotic pageantry built to a climax, a compact man with jug ears, weather-beaten face and glasses, the sort of fellow who looks like he might belong behind the counter in a small-town hardware store, bounded up to the impromptu stage, and the crowd roared, "Run, Ross...
...marks the end of the most enduring business-labor armistice in Europe, a social contract that allowed Germany to achieve its postwar miracle of industrial prosperity. Perhaps that compact of mutual benefit can be restored eventually. Nevertheless, the size of the wage hikes resulting from the strike will damp the energy of Europe's economic powerhouse at the , critical moment when it is needed to pull the Continent together. Germany, the "Paymaster of Maastricht," whose Bundesbank anchors the European monetary system that will be unified under that treaty's ambitious integration plans, is certainly headed for deep debt, maybe even...
...victory for those who have argued that the Japanese approach to television design is all wrong, a relic of 19th century technology that dates back to Marconi and Bell. The future, they say, is digital. To survive in a world dominated by digital chips, digital telephones and digital compact discs, the television of the future must speak in the streams of 0s and 1s that are the language of computers...
Scientists have long known that it is possible to represent the information carried in analog waves with strings of numbers. That is essentially what recording engineers did when they replaced analog records and tapes with digital compact discs. The advantages are twofold. Digital signals offer many more opportunities to identify and eliminate distortions caused by interference -- the echoes, flutters, ghosts and bursts of noise that can make today's broadcast television so hard on the eyes. Going digital also makes it easier to isolate and manipulate images -- freeze frames, enlarge pictures, even view scenes from different angles. That feature will...