Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...write off the territory beyond the Oder-Neisse line. German students have a deep revulsion to any thing that reminds them of Hitler?and that sometimes includes their own parents. At the same time, students who only a few years ago looked to the U.S. as a model are now somewhat disenchanted, largely because of the Viet Nam war and U.S. racial disturbances. German students are also strongly antimilitaristic, a fact that will probably prompt the Socialists to cut the tour of duty for draftees from 18 months to 15; at present, 200,000 German youths between...
Last year CBS Laboratories introduced its own playback system, called Electronic Video Recording (EVR). But the RCA version-which works through a combination of laser beams and holography-would cost the consumer only half as much. The model RCA demonstrated last week, however, was still a primitive prototype with grainy picture, color distortion and no sound...
Oldenburg moved to New York, where he met Artists Jim Dine and Allan Kaprow, who were busy inventing the world's first "happenings." Soon Oldenburg was staging happenings too, and got married to a pretty artists' model, Pat Muschinski. The world of objects-food, toys, bric-a-brac-blazed all around him ia neighborhood stores. Claes started to reproduce them in burlap or muslin dipped in plaster and painted with all the romantic energy of Abstract Expressionism. "I wanted to extend color to three-dimensioned form," he says, "to make paint tangible and edible...
Afro's statement said, "Project Cambridge and its ill-fated predecessor, Project Camelot, both funded by the United States Department of Offense (sic), represent the transition in U. S. foreign policy from Imperialism to Psycho-Imperialism. They are prototype applications of social science data-gathering and model-building techniques to the Offense Department's 'global mission...
...central time-sharing computer, an SDS 940, in the Computation Lab will be changed to a Sigma model next month. "The change is in no way a political move [referring to the machines' names]-both are made by the same company." Leahy said...