Word: graphics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pokes fun at Catholic priests, Jews, New World Indians and others in a racially offensive manner. Some of the characters in particular, such as the Dutch shipmaker Vanderdendur, the New World governor and the Old Lady, rely on stereotypical accents and mannerisms as well. There is also rather graphic scene in which Cunegonde is nearly raped by a soldier. Certainly, there is a tradition in the esprit francais of irony, satire, parody ody that pokes fun at every institution, goodor bad. It started in medieval times with thefabliaux, continued through Moliere.Voltaire, and flourishes in Modern days withLes Chansonniers, Les Freres...
...Jersey. "It's an adjustment coming from a daily paper with a regional audience to a magazine with a global one." But last week Gabel, who designs three-dimensional illustrations for TIME, faced a different challenge. At midweek, he was called upon to create a special foldout graphic on Internet companies, even as cyberdeals and rumors of cyberdeals were in the air, requiring constant revisions in the way the illustration was conceived. "I was forced to condense five days' worth of work into two," he says. Er, you mean asked, Ed, not forced, right? "Well...I pretty much stayed...
...January 1991, as American bombs rained onto Iraq, CNN's live attack coverage found a particularly appreciative audience five time zones away, in Beijing. To the Chinese, the Gulf War was a revelation--an introduction to 21st century tactics and weaponry that pointed out, in the most graphic way possible, the limits of China's massive but antiquated military. Smart bombs, flexible command and control, and seamless, high-tech attacks dazzled the Chinese leadership, who ramped up a campaign to upgrade the People's Liberation Army (P.L.A.) to world-class status. The new buzz words in China's Ministry...
...then, of course, there's the sex. The case, which is expected to go to the jury after closing arguments early this week, has been punctuated with such bizarre and graphic accounts of Capano's sexual activities that at times the local newspapers have chosen not to publish some of the testimony. Some in the courtroom refer to the defendant as the "man with the Velcro fly." At one point a mortified Delaware deputy attorney general was forced to testify that he had had a "threesome" with Capano and MacIntyre. Capano, he said, watched through a window while...
Finally, I admit that I get a fair number of questions about 3-D accelerators. These devices help your PC display three-dimensional graphics. But unless you play the latest and greatest games on your PC, you really don't need one. You can spend many hundreds of dollars, which I wouldn't recommend for anyone but graphic artists. I've tried most of them and can't see a difference, frankly. So my advice to gamers is to spend as little as possible. Now, the choice between a cow and a moose Monimal, though, is something we can discuss...