Word: decipherability
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Archer, who teaches at the University of California at Santa Cruz, gave his own S.I. tests to 2,400 men and women. They were asked multiple-choice questions about the status or relationship of people in a series of photographs like those on this page. Archer says that his subjects...
"In the beginning all the world was America." John Locke's 300-year-old phrase still keeps its haunting simplicity. For generations, America meant the part of the earth that was not corrupt, not worn by labor, tainted by inequality or poisoned by greed. This myth of paradise-on...
Understanding Long's art is a process of absorption. By nature a reticent and thoughtful man, Long makes little effort to verbalize his intentions in conversation or in writing. He is interested in the relationship between the public and private aspects of art. He sees installations like the one at...
Nearly everyone has had the frustration of receiving a phone message, restaurant bill, mechanic's receipt or note from the boss that turns out to be about as easy to decipher as Egyptian hieroglyphics. Weaned as they are on telephones, typewriters, computer print-outs and other communications gadgetry, Americans...
Instead there is a lot of talk. Much of it in impenetrable spaceflight jargon. Scanners, deflectors, warp speed, linguacode-words like that are always being barked into the intercom. But it is never to the point: it is hard to decipher where the starship Enterprise stands vis-a-vis the...