Word: instrumentalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...liberation theologians": "It is not necessary to hold alien ideologies in order to love and defend man. You can find in the center of the [Christian] message the teaching which calls for commitment to human dignity." Christian doctrine, he declared, teaches that man "is not reducible to a mere instrument of production, nor an agent of political or social powers...
George F. Will: The problem with television, not that it really has any, is that it's a severe to a camera, a peculiar newsgathering instrument. It has severe time constraints - 22 minutes in a newscast - and therefore is more apt to focus on vivid sights such as economic casualties and not economic complexities...
...treats it with an elaborate structure of symbols and images. Airplanes are a metaphor for physical risk (she was in a plane crash once), weightlessness and enforced camaraderie; dogs become a symbol of nature in harmonious, trusting alliance with humanity; the telephone is used both as an instrument of impersonal communication and the conveyor of whispered intimacies. Although there is no story line, Anderson strings her ideas together with deft, homey wordplay in a series of vignettes whose precise meaning may be ambiguous but whose effect is not. "The genius of American English is inflection," she explains. "I place phrases...
...despoiling of the environment, the horrors of war-her methods are not. A voice-activated synthesizer called a Vocoder allows her to speak and sing in chords. Her violin bow has prerecorded tape where the hairs should be, and is drawn across a tape playback head on the instrument's bridge, enabling the violin to "speak." Her back-up band includes saxophones, amplified drums and synthesizer, even a jazz bagpiper. Films and slides are projected onto a giant screen, to reinforce and complement the sense of the words. It could all easily degenerate into a kitchen-sink philosophy...
...including Warmerdam, thought it was impossible. "It was like the sound barrier," he says. Before anyone else made 15 ft., eleven years later, Warmerdam had done it 43 times. He held the world record 15 years. "Of course I go back to when the pole was a pretty stable instrument," he explains. Warmerdam's first bolt of bamboo carried him over high hedges and cringing livestock all across his father's spinach farm in California's San Joaquin Valley. His records were built of bamboo; steel and aluminum poles came along in the '50s, fiberglass...