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...preciselybecause they leave details to the imagination.But will high defi nition really addanything to a poorly-lit money shot thatwas fi lmed using decrepit equipment?And what about highbrow cinema? Will“Casablanca”—a visually gorgeous moviethat was made without the benefi t ofmodern technology—be improved byBlu-ray technology?Michael Curtiz’s directing, IngridBergman’s vulnerability, Bogey’s worldwearyone-liners—these were what made“Casablanca” great, not a pedantic obsessionwith visual detail. The profi t motivewas what fueled...
...danger of EMI is so great that it hasbecome an offensive military weapon. "Jamming," orthe use of EMI to disable enemy radar andcommunications systems, is an integral part ofmodern warfare. Planes, ships and ground-basedtransceivers equipped with jamming electronics canthrow millions, or in some cases, billions ofwatts of energy at enemy targets...
...volume "Billboard Pop Memories" is thebrainchild of world-renowned record researcherJoel Whitborn, and it is hard to argue with eitherthe song selections or the track-by-trackdescriptions of their place in the history ofmodern music. Every track on here is a classic,and most for good reasons, and there are those ofus who genuinely treasure having Judy Garland's"somewhere Over the Rainbow," Duke Ellington's"Mood Indigo," and Dean Martin's "Memories AreMade of This" on one collection...
...past 25 years, she said, the women'smovement has advanced far beyond both MaryWollstonecraft's vision and the first wave ofmodern feminism...
...Againtraditional in subject, "The Summer Landscape"(1909) gives a hint of his future in its electricyellows, blues and greens, its complete avoidanceof aerial perspective and the almost abstractshape of the regions of colors. Clearly, theexhibit does not intend to provide in this lastroom a thorough indication of the direction ofmodern art at the beginning of the twentiethcentury. Rather, by showing the early works of thegreat Russian moderns, the exhibit tries tounderscore not the newness of these painters, buttheir origins in the traditions of Russianpainting...
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