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Advanced compression technology shrinks the video signals to fit through conventional phone lines. "Psychologists tell us that 55% of a message is delivered in body language," notes Stephen Clemente, an AT&T executive. O.K., but what if your repertoire of phone language includes yawning and eye rolling? No problem. Callers...
The city was seen as the mill of oppression, grinding women down into whoredom and men into anonymity. German artists like George Grosz, Karl Hubbuch and the remarkable and still underknown Hannah Hoch imagined it as a grotesque theater, full of libido and irony -- the stage of a morality play...
Callahan's dooming moment came during a practice the week after the Crimson's second game of the season--a blowout win over Northeastern which lifted Harvard's record to 2-0. While turning after a routine compression blocking drill, the Kirkland House resident incurred a seriously herniated disk.
Newsmagazines also rely heavily on quotes, though their style emphasizes compression and bustle, in contrast to the New Yorker's leisurely pace. Each point the writer wishes to make comes with a quote to add color and authority. The color and the authority often take up more precious space than...
On Thursdays, the textual stuff: approach, linguistical skill, emotive power, bias, mission. Is the historian willing to call judgement? If so, directly, or through irony (Gibbon), or through emphasis (Macauley). Method of research? Empiricism--footwork--or the pure remove of documents? Even Style: the visual mania of Carlyle; the reasoned...