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...Bochner also said the degradation of photography allowed him and his fellow artists greater leeway in their exploration of the medium, because its purpose was less clearly defined...
...they agreed, too, that such limits would pose a danger to art, projecting that a new medium that further stretched boundaries would capture the attention of the art-viewing public in the future...
Resplendent in his military uniform, Prince Regent Hirohito in 1921 watched the making of a movie in Tokyo. Amazed at this novel way of capturing his country's way of life, the Emperor-to-be gave the new medium official approval, spawning a government-sanctioned industry that created thousands of silent motion pictures. After the rise of Japanese militarism led to the havoc of World War II, most of the country's silent movies were considered lost to history. "Some of the surviving films were destroyed by American occupation forces," says Joseph Anderson, author of the 1983 book, The Japanese...
Pedro will be fine. He’s figuring out how far he can press his arm without risking injury. Eventually, he will find a happy medium. He might not be dominant this year, but he’ll still win 18 games—and he won’t get injured...
...early days of the Internet, media tycoons from the old line venues looked to the Internet with fear. Ubiquitous and cheap, the new medium threatened their businesses with extinction or, worse, irrelevance. They did what any responsible business owner would do when faced with such a situation: they attempted, quite successfully, to co-opt the revolution by launching their own Internet news and analysis sites. By 2001, CBS Marketwatch, CNN.com and Dow Jones OpinionJournal.com had proven far more influential and popular than their upstart new economy challengers TheStreet.com, Slate.com and Salon.com. The revolution, it appeared, was over...