Word: graphics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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CREDIT: TIME Graphic by Joe Lertola...
CREDIT: TIME Graphic by Steve Hart...
...more than a decade, VR has helped pilots in training visualize objects in graphic three dimensions and on a 360 degrees field. Recent advances in reducing both the size and the cost of hardware and software are bringing VR out of the flight simulators and putting it within reach of architects, designers, surgeons and other professionals. "Properly done, virtual reality has an opportunity to change the world," says David Bonini, CEO of Division Inc., whose VR systems help drug researchers assemble "virtual" molecules. "This is only the beginning...
There was always the whiff of the charlatan about John Cage. The puckish composer, audacious theoretician, stylish writer, subtle graphic artist, macrobiotic guru and fearless mushroom hunter was the impish personification of the 20th century avant-garde. Arch, soft-spoken and witty, Cage was passionately adored by his acolytes right up to his death at age 79 in 1992, and continues to be regarded by some as a kind of contemporary Beethoven, his influence ranging as far afield as Germany and Japan (where he is a demigod). And yet: Was there ever a composer of whom it can be said...
...cliche contends that the Spanish are a proud and passionate people; Lope de Vega's Fuente Ovejuna hardly strives to dispel the stereotype. After a spot of flogging and rape foreplay, loopy Lope really gets the juices flowing with graphic onstage torture and decapitation. Gorier than "Commando," racier than "Emmanuelle on Taboo Island," Fuente Ovejuna makes for old-fashioned family fun. Yet for all its mainstage status, its interesting script and its many strengths, the Loeb production retains on overwhelming air of student drama of the cardboard shield and plastic sword school...