Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after annotating his early jottings, Wilson lets them stand, wisely refraining from trying to cover up their callowness. The medium-Wilson's younger, more romantic and hopeful self-is at least part of the message, which is that the cozy, cultivated world he grew up in "almost ceased to exist" after the war. Returning home from the service in 1919, he felt that "I had never quite believed in that world, that I had never, in fact, quite belonged to it. It now appeared to me too narrowly limited by its governing principles and prejudices." A Prelude is thus...
Back in the mid-1950s, Bulova Watch Co., the nation's biggest watch producer and importer, found itself whipsawed by its competition. On the one hand, more and more Americans were turning to expensive luxury watches, to the detriment of Bulova's essentially medium-priced (average retail cost: $60) line. On the other hand, the U.S. Time Corp., having found a way to anodize the aluminum cases on cheaper watches to make them resemble gold, was carving out a huge, low-price market with its Timex models. As a result, while the total U.S. market increased...
...esthetic musings that Cocteau kept in 1946, and now published in this country, reveals some of the reasons behind the success of his performance. First, Cocteau believed as firmly as any Method actor in the truth of his role as an artist. Romantically convinced that the artist is the medium, he approached the novel, drama, painting, ballet and, finally, cinema, as if each art were merely another form or mold for his personal "poetry," and he did not so much study each new form as pour himself into...
...what does it want? The theatre is an inherently social medium: it sends out an edited and ritualized mirror image of the society which puts it on and watches it. There is a running dialogue between the stage and audience--which manifests itself technically in the actors gauging the velocity of their performance against a specific audience's reactions...
...MacBird begins with a ritual murder and then fails both to implicate and to absolve its audience; the result is an experience of bland and almost complete detachment, and a document in the history of this tired old polis where agent and activity, critic and establishment, medium and message, are pathlogically identical...