Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...slowly copy itself across Arpanet, resting harmlessly in thousands of computers. But a tiny mistake in the programming reportedly caused the virus to replicate much more rapidly than planned. Otherwise, Morris' program was an impressive piece of work. It flew around Arpanet and Milnet at nearly the speed of light, disguised as a piece of ordinary electronic mail. Once inside a computer, it released a small army of surreptitious subprograms. One instructed the computer to make hundreds of copies of the original program. Another searched out the names of the users with legitimate access to the system and identified their...
...dense pigment) -- a pictorial equivalent, as it were, of the double meaning of the Hebrew word olam, which means world but also crowd. A painting like A Street in Willesden, 1985, reminds one of how pointless the stereotypes about English art have become. It is not anecdotal, witty, light or conversational. Rather, the opposite. In Kossoff, an obdurate grandeur of intention is coupled with a deep sense of cultural continuity. What other living painter can embed groups of figures in deep space with such conviction...
...Light counts for a great deal in Kossoff's work. The paint is never opaque; it contains streaks and underglows, akin to the suppressed radiance in Rembrandt's midtones. And there is atmosphere too. One particularly senses it in Kossoff's view of Christ Church in Spitalfields. This tall, slender building, designed by the English baroque architect Nicholas Hawksmoor, acquires a comatose power; the columns of its portico look as thick and squat as those of Karnak, repeating the compression of Kossoff's nudes and heads. But it is the light that one most remembers, a pale, almost chalky emanation...
...moment the light bulb goes on -- that, say teachers, is what they live for. That is why they are teachers and not plumbers or investment bankers. The look in a young person's eye: I got it! I understand! In the average school year there may be only a handful of such moments, but to a teacher they are unforgettable...
...evidence that smoking is not only bad for you, but will eventually probably kill you, is overwhelming. Even smokers know this fact; they most likely repeat it even as they light up another one. But as dangerous as the health hazards are, they fail to convince. And that is why Larry White's new book, Merchants of Death: The American Tobacco Industry is so useful. White's argument is joined at a moral level, arguing not only that that smoking is bad for you, but that smoking is bad for everyone, because it props up a tobacco industry which...