Word: instrumentalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long since evolved from a rare electronic marvel into a household appliance that is as ubiquitous as the kitchen stove. Now, a host of video products is appearing on the market that can transform the home TV from a passive machine capable of receiving broadcast programs into a versatile instrument permitting viewers to watch whatever programs they want, when they want. The latest entry in this market is videodiscs, machines that reproduce recorded programs or movies from a record-like platter onto the screen of any home television set. Next week, RCA Corp. will unleash an avalanche of advertising...
...instrument for expressing all this was his drawing. The existing corpus of Leonardo's drawings and notes is no more than a fragment of his life's work, now mutilated and dispersed; still, it runs to thousands of pages, some 600 of which are in the collection of the English royal family at Windsor Castle. In aesthetic terms the Windsor drawings are of incomparable interest, not least because they include so many of Leonardo's most developed studies of inanimate nature-plants, landscapes, the effects of weather and light. A group of 50 of these nature studies...
...most worked-out emblem of Leonardo's pessimism occurs toward the end of his life, in the 1510s, with the deluge drawings. In them, the spiral that was his sign for life becomes the symbol, and instrument, of ultimate destruction. Perhaps the germ of these drawings lay in his witnessing, as Clark has suggested, some great flood resembling the one that hit Florence in 1966. In those rhythmical, abstract spirals, like vast shavings from a plane, that emanate from the tumbling mountain, the exploding lake and the destroying clouds, Leonardo found his sign for the dissolution of all matter...
...idea of Christianity is also suspect because the church, while an instrument of salvation, is also an instrument of social containment, a taming device. The idea of home is elusive and treacherous, with one's home being traced either to a ghetto or to a Southern plantation or, as in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon (1977), into the past, where there are more dreams than roots. Is the U.S. itself home? That is no easy problem for a people from whom much of the country's bounty has been withheld, yet who are far more native...
...pianist, Pressler cannot travel with his instrument and so is more at the mercy of circumstance. He must perform on whatever piano happens to be in the hall when he arrives: in the past, these have included an out-of-tune upright and a piano with no pedals. When not performing with the trio. Pressler goes home to Bloomington, Indiana, where he is a professor at Indiana University. He keeps an active schedule of engagements with such orchestras as the Cleveland, the Philadelphia, and the New York Philharmonic. He has also appeared with such ensembles as the Julliard...