Word: plain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Here's short review of some of the more interesting--or just plain strange--courses being offered at Harvard this summer. If you'd like to dig up the Yard, listen to jazz, or watch old movies, or even if you'd just like to write about yourself, there's bound to be a course...
...posed with his family as cast. They were positioned and tutored for pictures, including four-week-old Catherine Nancy O'Farrell, named for Mrs. Reagan. It was duly reported that a man in a cloth cap was ushered in as "a solitary rep-representative of the plain people of Ballyporeen...
...Today, however, the owner of a new video cassette recorder or some other electronic wonder must turn to an instruction manual to get his machine working. But that is often when the trouble begins: the consumer opens a booklet to find a compilation of jargon, gibberish and just plain confusion. "There is a major disease in this country called wall-stare," says Sanford Rosen, president of Communication Sciences, a Minneapolis consulting firm. "When people read a computer manual, they just want to put it down and stare at the wall for as long as possible...
...celebrity as this riposte, and it, of course, is Arrangement in Gray and Black, No. 1: Portrait of the Painter's Mother, 1872, one of the half-dozen most famous pictures of the 19th century. The reasons for its fame are obscure and debatable, but the results are plain to see: "Whistler's Mother" swamped the rest of his output, turning him (at least in the eyes of the public after his death) into a one-painting man. A quip and a portrait of an old lady from North Carolina: on such thin pedestals do legends rest...
Only a year ago, computer publications were growing almost as fast as the industry. The demand for timely, unbiased information about computers written in plain English seemed insatiable. Advertisers rushed to the generally affluent computer owners, packing the publications with ads. The December issue of PCmagazine, which features articles about the IBM Personal Computer, had 498 pages of advertising and 276 pages of text. Nearly 600 journals, magazines and newsletters, with a combined circulation of about 12 million, now crowd the market...