Word: discs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cecilia-Nan Ding, 17, to name the last compact disc she bought or the last movie she saw, and she cannot tell you. But ask the senior at the prestigious Boston Latin School how many beds for battered women there are in Boston's shelters, and her recall is a rapid 400...419, to be precise--a number Nan (as she prefers to be called) finds disturbing. Consider in comparison, she says, the number of calls made in 1996 to Massachusetts women's hot lines...
...wouldn't say that, actually. For the past three years I've been giving less [virtuosic] stuff; in many ways, this program is an anomaly. My second disc was four Beethoven sonatas. I don't play any meaninglessly difficult things. No, no Godowsky. Alkan has an interesting tonal language...I try to do sets that illustrate relationships that interest me. I was doing a set [in concert] that would alternate Beethoven sonatas with Rachmaninoff preludes and Bach preludes and fugues, and there was a Chopin nocturne in there...
...other important product battle is over the digital versatile disc (also known as the digital videodisc). DVD is being advertised as the answer to the CD, the videotape and the CD-ROM. DVD is also the focus of the biggest battle to create an international standard since vhs vs. Betamax (in which Idei was on the losing side). Sony and Philips had been working for years to come up with a video version of the CD that would replace videotape cassettes and take CD-ROM discs to a new level. But in 1993 Toshiba trumped Sony, at least...
Besides, there remained a more important campaign to be waged--over standards for the much more lucrative market in rerecordable discs for computers. Last September, Sony set off a controversy by declaring that it had formed a consortium with Philips, Hewlett-Packard and Ricoh to produce a new format for the rewritable disc. "It has become very difficult to work out an international standard for anything these days," sighs Ohga...
...small clay sculptures in "Suddenly This Overview," are equally beguiling. All modestly crafted by hand and about the same size, the nine pieces presented at the ICA include a loaf of bread, a disc jockey, an outdoor garden and tambiguous, the sculptures are at once crude in their formal execution and sophisticated in their narrative mode...