Word: graphics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...General Mohammed Farrah Aidid's. Although he died young, Eldon left a startling record of his life: 17 journals full of collages, layers of photographs, clippings, writings and other scraps. Eldon had grown up in Kenya, led a relief mission to Mozambique, worked in New York City as a graphic designer, traveled extensively, written a book and started his own photography business. Now his mother Kathy Eldon and Chronicle Books have sifted through the journals and published the best of them as The Journey Is the Destination: The Journals of Dan Eldon. "The intent is not to have people admire...
...Even though the rate of serious crime in the U.S. has fallen to levels not seen since the early 1970s, public fear of crime has reached an apex. TV transmits vivid pictures of actual violence into the nation's living rooms on a daily basis in more and more graphic detail. Politicians respond to the mounting public fear with declarations of war on drugs and crime that resonate with voters, from presidential to local elections. They also play well to the police culture. As a result, powerful police unions endorsed mayors Rudolph Giuliani in New York and Richard Riordan...
...there's plenty about Macintosh that's worth controlling. Gates' richest prize may be Apple's intellectual property, both silicon-and carbon-based. The graphic designers, software gurus and other artsy types who constitute the Mac's most fervent cadres are a disproportionately influential market niche. Some two-thirds of all Websites are thought to have been created on Macs. "It's very attractive to Microsoft to have access to cutting-edge Mac developers," says Kurt King, an analyst with San Francisco-based Montgomery Securities, "particularly in areas like video streaming and other graphics technologies that represent the likely future...
MASTER OF THE GAME. Perhaps no program has moved more students into skilled jobs than the Center for Employment Training. Run on a $40 million annual budget provided by government and private grants, CET last year placed 3,141 graduates in jobs ranging from graphic artists to medical assistants. Among the recent hires was Pauline Flores, 29, a single mother of five who began work for a Silicon Valley pediatrician in May after seven months of medical training (cost: nearly $6,500). Today Flores earns $8.75 an hour answering phones, drawing blood, doing labwork and assisting physician Katherine Wong...
...small theater companies, nurturing emerging young playwrights like himself) and is the only one who seems to be working consciously within a particular form. His Shopping and F______ belongs to the subgenre of so-called smack-and-sodomy plays, in which drug use is rampant and sex is graphic, brutish and usually anal. We are in Trainspotting territory here. The pseudo-family of down-and-out drug-users and drifters in Shopping are--like the characters in Trainspotting, a stage version of which preceded the film (both based on Irvine Welsh's novel)--the alienated youth of Britain, uneasily poised...