Word: linearly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Henry S. Kaplan, 65, Stanford University radiologist and co-inventor of the first medical linear accelerator in the Western hemisphere, which became the cornerstone of modern radiation therapy and helped transform once fatal Hodgkin's disease, for example, into a relatively curable ailment; of lung cancer; in Palo Alto, Calif. In 1955 the Chicago-born Kaplan collaborated with Edward Ginzton in developing a 6-million-volt accelerator at the Stanford Medical Center, then in San Francisco. The device smashed atoms to produce high-dosage radiation that could be directed at various forms of cancer with much greater accuracy...
...linear because there's so much going on. It becomes a rich tapestry, one big piece of theater," Rauch explained...
...exhibit was a $2,000 alarm made by Texas-based Sennet Systems that is equipped with a computer-synthesized voice. When activated, the unit can phone a homeowner anywhere in the U.S. and use its 256-word vocabulary to alert him to the precise nature of a security problem. Linear Corp. of Inglewood, Calif., showed off a $199 outdoor surveillance system that, when tripped by an intruder, floods a home and its surroundings with up to 500 watts of light. Linear also displayed a $49, three-quarter-ounce transmitter that can be worn as a necklace. When pressed, it silently...
...like Standard, 1971, have an undeniable, simple power, even a degree of mystery. One realizes where a New York graffiti artist like the fulsomely promoted Keith Haring, 25-the Peter Max of the subways-filched his ideas, a decade later. Penck's paintings consist of stick figures and linear signs, enacting parodies of myth, ritual and archaic language. They draw on a wide range of sources, from algebra to Dipylon vases, from set theory and scribbles on the Berlin Wall to American Indian petroglyphs. Like a lot of earlier modernist art, they quote the "primitive" forms...
...most avaricious people. Infinite desires but infinite time and space." To Ekuan the traditional bento-bako - the stacked lunch box packed with its careful array of distinct morsels - is the true ancestor of that emblem of modern Japan, the box full of microchips. Both represent a culture of linear flow: the processing of information, sensuous or electronic, through standardized components that can modulate content rapidly and to an infinite degree by rearrangement. The bento-bako is the archetype of modular coordination; food culture and high tech are, in spirit, the same. In short, the TV dinner begat...