Word: instrumentalization
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Less controversial was the proposal that terrestrial defenders should know the exact nature of their target before acting. Responding early to a worrisome asteroid, they would send a "precursor mission," an instrumented spacecraft, to fly by or orbit the object and determine its size, shape and composition. One such "practice" mission, code-named Clementine, has already been budgeted by the Defense Department in coordination with NASA. It will fly an instrument package past the approaching asteroid Geographos in 1994 to test the kind of sensors and navigational devices that someday may be needed to help cope with a real threat...
...clangor of the world. White noise becomes the aural equivalent of the clash of images, the nonstop blast of fragments that increasingly agitates our minds. As Ben Okri, the young Nigerian novelist, puts it, "When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument...
...followed the rise of Arkansas' saxophone-playing Governor. Like Clinton, Sancton has a deep love of music, having studied the clarinet in his native New Orleans with the great George Lewis. "I find it amusing that he is a fellow Southern Rhodes scholar who plays a reed instrument," he says. Sancton still finds time to cut records and jam with the likes of Woody Allen and Doc Cheatham. This week Tom once again departs for the City of Light in order to take over as Paris bureau chief. "Having worked for TIME on both sides of the Atlantic, I find...
...under way. Yet no American sculptor in her generation has more to tell us, through her work, about being a woman. To an astonishing degree, she personalized Minimalism, the artistic context to which she belonged, taking it out of the constraints of theory and system and making it an instrument of feeling -- of telling an inner life...
...display of the Vukovar photographs now hangs in the Museum of Applied Art in Belgrade. Applied art indeed. They depict slaughters of amazing awfulness, performed with a conscienceless ingenuity that makes a man want to resign from the human race. Here, for example, we see an instrument that looks like a tuning fork, but with the prongs more widely spaced, about 3 1/2 inches apart. A local trademark is to gouge out both eyes. Hence this handy device. Studies in the Balkan Department of Comparative Atrocity...