Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...measuring 5 1/2 in. square and powered by four AA batteries, the microchip Bible is more portable than most published editions. By punching in book, chapter and verse, the user can immediately call up any of the 31,173 verses of Scripture on the screen's four display lines. From there the text can be read continuously, backward or forward...
...this: type in a request to find any place in the Bible where the words valley, shadow and death occur in the same verse. The machine will obligingly display Psalm 23: 4. Can't recall the exact words? A built-in thesaurus lets the user search through synonyms. The machine also provides - pronunciations for proper names (Enoch is EE-nuck). A handicap for some will be difficulty in reading the enhanced liquid-crystal display, whose resolution is still inferior to that of larger, more expensive personal computers that can process Bible-reference software...
...moonlit mountains, and so he could indulge his charming 19th century awe. When the earth turned in its sleep, it crushed much landscape in the folds, but somehow the event could keep its innocence. When nature does something awful, after all, is it part of the electrical display of God the Father, or merely geography rearranging itself, obeying an impersonal agenda...
...think of time as a raging torrent, swollen with the trophies of war, disaster, luck and adventure. Pluck from the current some unidentified floating object. Pass it around. Put it on display. Argue about what it means. That's photojournalism. No one knows exactly when it was born, but it was in the instant some photographer pointed his lens at an event other people wanted to see. Since then, photojournalism has remained the best way of freeze-drying history for further inspection...
...shown on the following pages in rough chronological order. Photography experts and working photojournalists were consulted, but in the end the selection is TIME's. Many readers will disagree with the list. That is to be encouraged. But look at these pictures. Pass them around. Put them on display. Argue about what they mean. That's photojournalism...