Word: grid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pricier end of the market, Grid Systems of Mountain View, Calif., offers the Mercedes-Benz version. It has a thin, flat screen, folds into a sleek 9¼-lb. magnesium package and slips easily into the bottom half of a briefcase. The Compass Computer, as it is called, packs considerable storage capacity-enough to handle the wordage of a long novel. "It's a truly stunning engineering achievement," says one industry analyst. Equally stunning, however, is the price...
Japan is also quickly moving to pioneer its own technological advances. Sharp has developed a flat computer display screen that takes much less space than conventional ones. It is being used by Grid Systems of Mountain View, Calif., in its new Compass computer, which sells for $8,150. Sony has introduced a device that can store nearly twice as much computer information in about half the space that is now required. Japan is also reputed to have a lead in the development of more futuristic improvements like videodisc storage, which will vastly enlarge the capacity of personal computers...
Callinan's grid skills--which led him to three new Harvard records last season--apparently caught the attention of at least three members of the Giants' organization, who reportedly were "impressed" by what they saw. Last season, Callinan set single-season Harvard records for most carries (209), most rushing yards (1054), and most total offense yards (1075), as well as rushing for nine touchdowns and catching 18 passes for 204 yards...
...vintage cartoon by Saul Steinberg shows a baroque room, all gold and curlicues; in it, a maestro is delicately prodding at a canvas filled with a grid of straight lines - a Mondrian, pure and polemical, red-yellow-blue-gray-white-black, utterly incongruous against the florid décor of the 19th century. How could Europe produce the painting within 70 years or so of finishing the room? That in effect is the question posed by "De Stijl, 1917-1931: Visions of Utopia," an exhibition that opened last month at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and will...
...mannered, that goes with their aloof and somewhat ambiguous degree of abstraction. When Diebenkorn wants to set a curve flowing across the paper, its rhythm acquires a detached mellowness, a quality of reverie; this wandering of the hand is constantly checked and inflected by the vestiges of a grid, the angled cuts of straight drawing that survive from the Ocean Parks and are, in fact, a permanent feature of his style. Consequently, the Knoedler exhibition as a whole presents a display of control rare incurrent painting...