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...curious motif Diebenkorn refers to as his "ace of spades," and which does resemble the black pip on that card pushed and pulled out of shape. It is Diebenkorn's way of breaking up the remote geometry of the Ocean Parks; one no longer sees a distant "view" of a whole terrain, but moves closer, toward this lobed and writhing emblem which suggests either body or still life: the curves of a thigh, a buttock or a breast, the petals of a flower rising on its stalk, or-in some of the drawings-the black propped...
...telecommunications and information-processing markets. Recently, for example, AT&T asked permission from the Federal Communications Commission to set up a long-awaited coast-to-coast network of video-screen teleconferencing centers. These will use computer and telecommunications technology to enable businessmen to confer with colleagues and clients in distant cities...
...year later, RCA's financial prospects appear, if anything, grimmer still. The company's once strong NBC television network remains a distant third in the ratings, behind both ABC and CBS. Meanwhile, the firm's SelectaVision video disc player units for home viewing of prerecorded video entertainment have so far failed to catch on with consumers. In addition, earnings in other operating divisions have continued to decline. One result is that overall corporate red ink in the third quarter of 1981 hit $109.3 million, the worst quarterly performance by the company since...
...final exmple of the cooperation came in recent weeks, when some residents decided they weren't quite happy with the deal that had been struck. Instead of hemming and hawing and saying plans couldn't be changed--as the University had in other not-so-distant confrontations with the city--Harvard's planners redrew their design to leave two historic houses standing...
Life on Earth is a series of miracles, some familiar and some so strange as to sound like a tale told by a space traveler returning from a distant galaxy. On the more bizarre side there are the Cycloranas, the water-holding frogs of the Australian desert. Their active life is condensed to brief times when there is water in those arid wastes. After a rainstorm, they gorge themselves on insects, mate, then watch their eggs quickly develop into tadpoles. Finally, bloated with water, they burrow into the sand and wait for the next storm, which may not come...