Word: graphics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...13th: The Series and War of the Worlds -- were among the five top-rated weekly syndicated shows at the end of last season. Oddly, they have attracted little notice beyond their cult audiences, even from the clean-TV crusaders, who would probably be appalled by the prolific (though rarely graphic) violence. Which is just fine, since it allows the rest of us to enjoy some B-movie pleasures: comic-book energy, throw-logic-to-the-wi nds imagination and, occasionally, a good scare...
...students were given the Philip Hofer Prize in Collecting, a new award created in honor of the late Philip Hofer '21, founder and first curator of the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts in the Houghton Library and secretary of the Fogg Art Museum...
Freitag said he and the other two judges, Eleanor M. Garvey, the Philip Hofer curator of printing and graphic arts, and John M. Rosenfield, the Rockefeller Professor of Oriental Art and a curator of the Fogg Art Museum, chose two winners and two honorable mentions because the entries were so good...
Every night, we sleep comfortably in our warm and safe dormitories while the homeless curl up together on subway grates. What happened last night at the Lampoon was by no means an isolated incident. It was simply one of the more graphic examples of the apathy surrounding the widening gap between the wealthy and the impoverished in the richest country on earth. Of course, the Lampoon meant this event to be humorous, an entertaining joke; but as long as the problems of homelessness and poverty run rampant around us, this kind of spectacle is an extremely tasteless joke...
...journalism -- the kind done with words -- is the first draft of history, what is photojournalism? Is it the first impression of history, the first graphic flash? Yes, but it is also (and this is the disturbing thing) history's lasting visual impression. The service that the pictures perform is splendid, and so powerful as to seem preternatural. But sometimes the power they possess is more than they deserve...