Word: length
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University report's review of letter-writing pays tribute to Finley's prodigious output, while recognizing that the letter-writing master is a disappearing breed. "One person who every admissions office in the country knew was John Finley, whose letters were famous for their length and eloquence," the report said...
...future: sharper sound, better production, more finesse with image and story, more time as performers move away from the clip to the album-length format. All these are easy enough to predict, with certainty. But it is not easy to see where this will end. Indeed, there is the strong sense it may not end at all, that the forms will keep mutating, that the big screen and the small will shape, share and shift sizes, and that music will be the common ground...
...sometimes just thinking about a visual," says Billy Joel. Notes Ellen Foley: "Video is a luxury and a freedom. You're instantly the star of your own movie." David Byrne of Talking Heads, one of the relatively few musicians who also directs, is at work on an album-length video, but offers some words of general guidance and caution. "I tend to like to have relatively few visual links to the lyrics of the song. I feel that you pigeonhole the song that way, that you detract from the lyrics by interpreting them. Images in Burning Down the House...
...there." The exploration starts with a basic aspect of history, time itself. Who first thought of measuring the year, or dividing it into months and weeks? The Romans decreed a week of eight days and a day of twelve hours, but the day itself was measured solely by the length of sunlight, so the units of time varied in different places and seasons. Not until medieval monks conceived an obligation to pray at fixed hours of the night did their need spur the invention of a mechanical clock that worked in the dark...
Some of the reforms: increasing the length of the school day from five to 5½ hours, and advancing the age at which students can quit school from 15 to 16. Beginning next year, third-and sixth-graders will be required to take basic skills tests, and after 1987, eighth-graders will have to pass tests in subjects such as reading and math to enter high school. Some educators predict that the state will have to build as many as 2,500 classrooms and hire some 3,500 teachers over the next three years because of proposed changes...