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...nights, the wide screens at San Francisco's Moscone Center glowed with some of the most sophisticated computer animations yet produced: TV commercials that showed Chevy vans floating in clouds and Norelco shavers zipping around a racetrack; television network logos replete with spinning globes and sparkling call letters; scientific simulations displaying molecules at magnifications no microscope could achieve; and animal, vegetable and mineral objects more realistically portrayed than ever before. Says Computer Artist William Reeves of Lucasfilm, who created the image of windblown grass he calls Blowin' in the Wind: "I'm not going to claim it's just like...
...Modern Life is Rubbish, The Great Escape, and Parklife, the band’s finest hour: we see the yellow Blur logo, curvy and European-looking, cast onto three different images: on Rubbish, a vintage propaganda drawing of a speeding train, on Parklife, a close-up of a speeding racetrack greyhound, on Escape, two friends on a boat and the legs of one jutting out in a hyperrealized image...
Among LIFE photographers, Silk was the motion man, the one who repeatedly devised ways to make pictures that snared action on the wing. He managed to put a camera on a ski and another on a surfboard. He adapted the racetrack photo-finish camera to catch track stars in motion. And for a photo essay on a 14-year-old diving star, he caught her at the very moment she broke the surface...
...Although some might view the demise of racetrack betting as a victory for virtue, in Hong Kong the decline of an institution as influential as the HKJC would be a financial blow felt by the entire city. It's no secret that Hong Kong, a city of 6.8 million, is full of avid gamblers. The $8.3 billion they bet on the ponies last year was only slightly less than the horse-racing wagers of France. A gambling tax in Hong Kong contributes significantly to government coffers. The HKJC is the city's largest single taxpayer, accounting for 11.5% of total...
...though recently more vibrant, has for more than five years left locals with less cash to risk on the ponies. Wong's main customer base is aging, and the club has struggled to attract young replacements. Chan Man-kam, a 29-year-old computer-software salesman, was once a racetrack regular. But lately, he says he prefers meeting with friends at a bar where he can watch his beloved Manchester United football club on a big-screen TV. "Horse racing is boring for our generation," he says...