Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sound, or can tear up reality and reassemble it to the point that the medium's ambitions seem extravagantly metaphysical. To others, TV is all of civilization's banality crammed into a buzzing home appliance designed to cause brain damage. As a witness to actuality -its "news function"-television can be journalistically incomparable (Newton Minow exempted news from his famous 1961 charge that television was a "vast wasteland"), but its effects are complicated...
Though the student governments at these three schools vary in function, a core of powers, practices and problems is common to all. In each school, students have been permitted a foot in the door to power, by membership on advisory and policy-making bodies. In each, students are slowed by insufficient information and a lack of genuine authority to set policy. In each case, success in opening the door wider depends on students' ability to convince administrators that they truly represent student opinion, and to lobby administrators with polls, demonstrations and facts...
...contrast to solo dancing, ensemble work requires each individual dancer to be as unobtrusive as possible, presenting the onlooker with the paradox of human forms assuming a fluid, abstracted aesthetic function. Thursday's swan maidens were polished, nestling together like the coils of a spring, swirling and clustering in their white skirts like blown dandelion seeds. On the other hand, Laura Young's Swan Queen was, for all her technical competence, thoroughly disappointing. The role is a showcase of breathtaking choreography, but Young moved from pose to pose as though composing the isolated frames of a film strip. A sense...
Sullivan's most important function, in the eyes of those who appoint him, is to provide tight financial management. But instead of high profits, it is low taxes people want from him. And instead of stockholders or voters, it is the city councilors to whom Sullivan must ultimately answer...
...began in earnest when his look at the shooting was over. For Herr came to realize that Viet Nam was the most intense experience life was ever likely to offer him. Hating the idea of becoming a combat freak, a reporter who needed a war somewhere in order to function, he also recognized the pain that he and fellow correspondents felt when their tours were up: "A few extreme cases felt that the experience there had been a glorious one, while most of us felt that it had been merely wonderful. I think that Viet Nam was what...