Word: digests
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...Weimer's caption is a particularly telling addition, since it rightly suggests that elementary school aged children are not prepared to digest the highfalutin philosophy of these postmodern statements-their own viewing lenses are too unsophisticated, uninformed, theoretically simple. Elementary school children tend to be less interested in art as an intellectual enterprise than as an exposition of beauty-an activity that plays on the pleasures of the sense. And while "Sliding Down A Volcano With Kleenex Boxes as Skis" is intellectually appetizing, its over-simplified visual schema doesn't have a leg to stand on in terms of beauty...
...when I think of it, at least while it’s still going on and before I’ve returned to Cambridge to digest more fully, it just keeps coming back to me in moments and in images. I think I will probably always view it that way. There will be the signs and lights of Leicester Square, the overpowering family circus that is the Vegas strip, the look on the face of a man who waged his last political campaign and must adjust permanently to life as a private citizen. The memories of this summer won?...
...short term, these megacompanies face a period of adjustment. Flextronics, for one, will have to digest its gut-busting acquisitions. Says Merrill Lynch analyst Jerry Labowitz: "It's a real challenge for any company growing at an extraordinary rate to do three dozen acquisitions in less than 15 months, especially when many of them are in new areas for the company." In the meantime, the big EMS players must also adjust to the economic woes of their customers. In a speech last month, Marks predicted that the telecom industry is "going to get a lot nastier, with...
Sibley's book will introduce more people to birds; more bird watchers will lead to more individual initiative, and the birds will be the beneficiaries. ANDY THOMPSON, PUBLISHER Bird Watcher's Digest Marietta, Ohio...
DIED. J.C. FURNAS, 95, prolific writer, biographer and historian of American society; in Stanton, N.J. His most famous article, "...And Sudden Death," examined automobile deaths and driving safety. Reader's Digest reprinted 8 million copies, and it helped prompt safer highway and auto designs...