Word: monitoring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Massachusetts, Republican Margaret Heckler lost her House race to Democrat Barney Frank in part because of her ads charging that Frank, while a state legislator, had favored prostitution and pornography; Frank in fact had voted for a bill to set up adult-entertainment zones where police could more easily monitor those activities. Half the voters questioned in exit polls conducted by station WBZ-TV called Heckler's ads objectionable...
...reason for the industry's bright business outlook is, in a word, economy. A typical telecommunications satellite can cost up to $75 million to manufacture, launch and monitor while in orbit above the earth. But that expense is small compared with the burdens involved in laying thousands of miles of cable across a continent or even an ocean...
...manufacturing town on Michigan's Upper Peninsula, 2,400 high school students must share just three Apple computers. Downstate in Ovid, teachers at the town's elementary school had to hook their only computer to a television set because they could not afford the standard video monitor. "We have a sense of panic," says Principal Tom Van Deventer. "A year ago, a computer was a luxury. Now it is a necessity." But there are competing necessities. In New Orleans, where fewer than 7% of the schools have computer classes, one school district administrator contends, "Kids here need...
...scene opens in pitch darkness, except for the flicker of some electronic indicator and the calm cobalt face of the monitor. When time begins moving, it is with a queer jerky stylization, folding in on itself. Beckett's characters on paper are so surrealistic, so utterly removed from normal constraints or modes of reference, that it's an initial shock to see one walking around. The fifty-is Gullett, white hair frizzed, eyes bugged out, toddles and grumbles like a Monty Python animated character, and it's a long while before he talks...
Cherson and company have done a good job of mechanical wizardry, enough to eliminate any reminder that this is an amateur production. Though the videotape and monitor comprise the central metaphor for the action, the machinery focuses observations on Krapp rather than drawing attention to itself. Through it, the themes of the piece gradually and firmly emerge...