Word: multimedia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Frida, currently in performance at the American Repertory Theatre, brings new meaning to the terms multimedia production. Frida is part film, part puppet show, part opera, part play; in totem it is consummately absorbing, wholly engaging...
...that he, unlike the President, has a plan. His latest strategy involves using Macintosh computers to launch a high-tech assault intended to inform voters of exactly what that plan is. Drop by your local Democratic Party headquarters, and you too can access the Bill Clinton Interactive Kiosk, a multimedia presentation complete with moving pictures in which voters can view the candidate speaking to a rapt audience on 12 topics such as defense, the economy and welfare reform. Voters can even take home a printout of the Clinton positions. The program is far from boring, but music fans will...
...Discovery Channel in August, the book is Fuentes' answer to Kenneth Clark's Civilisation, which ignored the Spanish- speaking world. Aiming to show that the Latin legacy is as rich as anything in the Anglo-Saxon tradition, Fuentes has condensed five centuries of Hispanic experience into a multimedia saga that ranges, in his words, "from the caves of Altamira to the graffiti of East Los Angeles...
...scheme to be the dominant conduit for every conceivable communications service -- from faxes, newspapers and video conferencing to home shopping, radio broadcasts and TV. At least seven phone companies, including Pacific Telesis, Ameritech and BellSouth, are developing the ISDN software for special fiber-optic wires that can carry such multimedia information. But the companies need state regulatory approval for telephone-rate increases to cover installation costs. Public service commissions, however, have been reluctant to let companies raise phone bills to recover the investment...
Standing for most of her performance in front of a fixed-image of a road receding into the distance, Laurie Anderson is a diminutive spiky-haired bard of the nineties. During a topical multimedia performance titled Voices From the Beyond last Friday at a packed Sanders Theater, Anderson endeared, entertained and decidedly challenged her audience...