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...soil. In Western Europe, some of that sentiment has flowed into the pacifist and antinuclear movement that brought thousands of people into the streets two years ago to protest the deployment of U.S. -built nuclear Pershing II and cruise missiles as a counter-force to a Soviet buildup of medium-range SS-20s. The era of mammoth demonstrations seems to have passed, but a pacifist current remains. With the notable exception of France, it has penetrated the main opposition parties of many West European countries and has caused occasional tension within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization over questions of arms...
...American city. At once radical and conservative, the Downtown Plan will permit only a couple of new towers to be built in the dense center of downtown. It will limit large-scale building citywide to an annual aggregate of 950,000 sq. ft., the equivalent of two or three medium-size office towers a year, and push the locus of that new development southward into a shabbier quarter. Most intriguing are the provisions that will halve the bulk of new buildings and essentially require that every new skyscraper have stepped setbacks, surface ornament and a decoratively tapered top. Barring...
...than comes from the tinny tiny speaker of a typical TV. Videos are at home on television, but they, like film, depend on editing to duplicate and convey the raw power of the music. About all a television director can do is cut back and forth between cameras. The medium does not catch the excitement of a performance, it just secondhands it along...
Cronkite has constructed an on-screen personality that makes him the single most convincing and authoritative figure in TV news--no mean rank in a medium where competition is uncompromising, where the three nationwide networks scrutinize one another's shows and crib from one another's operations in a desperate drive for the top of the ratings. As a better-informed public has demanded more and more information about current events, TV news programs have changed from loss leaders and have begun to start paying their way. And as the networks have made the most of them, news shows like...
...three-disc set released by BBC/Opus Arte. And we haven't even mentioned the surround sound, the subtitles in your choice of four languages, the plot synopses--all only a click or two away on your remote. No wonder conductor James Levine says that of all recording technologies, "this medium is, up to now, the best. DVD gives a really amazing, thrilling and altogether remarkable result...