Word: framings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...entertainment company MCA, and LaserDisc, a product of the Japanese electronics firm Pioneer. Both use playback machines that read pictures and sound from a metallic record via a laser beam that never physically touches the platter. With LaserDisc the viewer can select which of the up to 54,000 frames on the record he wants to see by pushing buttons on a keyboard; each frame has its own number. For instance, on a disc that contains images of art masterpieces, a viewer could jump from a picture of Rembrandt's Self-Portrait to Degas's Ballet Scene...
Another work at the Lehnbachaus was a metal table on wheels, placed over a tub of waxy material. A cabinet-like frame hung on the wall above. The guide booklet said the waxy stuff represented human fat; the rolling table, an embalming tray and the tools in the cabinet, embalming tools. The observer was supposed to reach and overcome the death taboo, called "The Morgue," the work aimed to fill the senses with revulsion and horror so that the viewer gradually lost his sensitivity to death...
...Crimson rolled into Philly somewhat tired from their thumping of the Tigers the night before. After taking a quick two games at Princeton, Harvard stumbled in the third frame, 15-6, and fell behind in the fourth game...
With 7:18 left in the middle frame, and Harvard trailing 2-1, the green line came through once again as Vicki Palmer netted the equalizer from Firkins Reed and Julie Start, and it was anyone's hockey game. But the Crimson, who outskated the Big Green for most of the emotional and physical contest, failed to capitalize when it counted late in the third period, despite outshooting the visitors, 7-1, in the final stanza...
...audience of about 75, Calhoun, the second highest U.S. trade official, criticized blacks for following "so-called leaders who operate on the humanitarian" appeal that Blacks are owed and should be given economic relief. Instead, he said, "we should attempt to understand and analyze economic issues" so Blacks can "frame their interests in accordance with prevailing economic policy...