Word: plasticity
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Here's another first for the 20th century: it's the first in which performing artists at the end of the century have been able to see and hear their predecessors from the century's beginning. It used to be that only the plastic arts could be preserved--in print, paint or objects. The performing arts were evanescent. A dancer's line, a comedian's schtick, a singer's coloratura vanished as soon as the performer walked into the wings, and could only be remembered, described, perhaps glimpsed in a third- or fourth-hand imitation. Now recordings, film and videotape...
...work, everything is staked on sensation and desire. His aim was not to argue coherence but to go for the strongest level of feeling. He conveyed it with tremendous plastic force, making you feel the weight of forms and the tension of their relationships mainly by drawing and tonal structure. He was never a great colorist, like Matisse or Pierre Bonnard. But through metaphor, he crammed layers of meaning together to produce flashes of revelation. In the process, he reversed one of the currents of modern art. Modernism had rejected storytelling: what mattered was formal relationships. But Picasso brought...
...what language! Ten years earlier a boy might have sat reverently by the living-room Zenith to hear the Metropolitan Opera and pick up a little Italian along the way. Now he hid in his bedroom with his plastic 45-r.p.m. player straining to figure out what the heck Little Richard was screaming. "Well long tall Sally she's biffaspeesheega [built for speed, She got] everything that Uncle John need." And what exactly, the boy wondered, did Uncle John need...
Business cards are getting an upgrade for the digital age. Now image-conscious digerati can replace their old paper versions with plastic cards that pop into any CD-ROM drive and play a multimedia presentation. Sold by Digital Card in New York City, the wallet-size CD-ROMs can hold as much as 18 MB of data or 2 1/2 min. of video, and cost $1.50 to $3.50 apiece...
...precaution, the Freshman Union--where manybelieved the virus was born--shut down for severalmeals and switched to plastic utensils and bottleddrinks. Many students had to skip the winterSocial Analysis 10: "Principles of Economics"midterm the following afternoon...