Word: formatting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Inevitably, much of the heavy baggage that readers will schlep across the bridge into the 21st century will be the large-format, illustrated histories of the 20th. The bridge is not yet ready for traffic, but two such volumes are now crowding the toll gates. One is The Century (Doubleday; 606 pages; $60) by Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster; the other, The American Century (Knopf; 710 pages; $50) by Harold Evans. The books are distinctly different, but each has much to recommend it, not least because Jennings, a Canadian national, and British-born Evans, now a U.S. citizen, view their...
...than a musical suite. In fact, it was almost a miniature play. While there were no actors, no costumes, no sets, there was one staple of drama--an unmistakable storyline. Ozawa took the role of the narrator and the instruments assumed the voices of characters. The Miraculous Mandarin's format was vaguely reminiscent of the children's symphony, Peter and the Wolf. Its plot, however, was drastically different. The Miraculous Mandarin unravelled in the salacious milieu of a brothel bedroom, where a young prostitute, working in tandem with three ruffians, would lure and rob her customers. The ruffians were depicted...
...previous sections, will make an audience sit up and listen more closely. The Handel & Haydn Society performed the symphony admirably. The work was fluid and captivating, moving from melancholy to poetic to lively without any stops. There were no breaks between the movements, a departure from the traditional format most composers, including Mendelssohn himself, used. Mendelssohn's fundamental charm combined with a skillful performance made for a wonderful evening at Symphony Hall...
...book, Probability 1, Amir Aczel, an associate professor of statistics at Bentley College, uses the question of whether there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe as a frame for the discussion of a selection of these discoveries. He presents, in a clear and easily accessible narrative format, topics ranging from organic chemistry to chaos theory to the recent discovery of extrasolar planets...
...between scenes, as well as a tool for creating scrolling credits and titles. The whole process, from installation to previewing my first minute-long masterpiece, titled The Walker, took about four hours. You can save your movie on videotape or slim it down into a lower grade, streaming video format for the Web. (The premiere of The Walker can be seen on our website at timedigital.com. Only one problem: now I want a video camera...