Word: fills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sixth Overseer is Thomas Vincent Learson '35 of Armonk, New York, President and Director of IBM Corporation, who was elected to fill Calkins unexpired term, until June...
...hangs a huge mobile by Britain's Gordon Pask that responds electronically to lights flashed on it by visitors. Wen Ying Tsai's sonically activated bed of strobe-lit steel rods sways to each clap of the viewer's hands. Taped sounds of computer-composed music fill the air, and computer-made poetry is on view. Some of it reads rather like Alice in Wonderland as rewritten by Charles Olson...
...Hand Clapping. Even at its best, the show proves not that computers can make art, but that humans are more essential than ever. For each of the drawings, a detailed program, painstakingly prepared by a human, was needed; the computer did no more than fill in the requested dots and lines. No genuinely observant viewer could ever confuse a vibrant Riley or a vertigo-inducing Steele painting with the computer's dry, mechanical variants on the original works. And, elaborate though Tsai's kinetic sculpture may be, it too needs a human, in fact two: one to build...
Boeing's investment remains a gamble. At first, the 747 was designed for long-haul flights at bargain fares. But the original idea has been slightly altered. Fearful of being able to fill 490 economy seats-and of running their present jet fleets out of business-the airlines have all but abandoned the cheap-fare concept. To fill planes at current fares, many are opting for 350-seat layouts and devoting the rest of the space to such frills as 71-ft. movie screens and a "penthouse lounge" that converts to two twin-bed staterooms...
...Harvard, one major question will be how competently senior George Lalich can fill the quarterback vacancy left by Ric Zimmerman. Lalich is regarded as a good passer and a better runner, but he comes into the game with only 12 minutes of varsity experience...