Word: seamless
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...program and operate anything as complex as an information highway. There are about half a dozen such confederations. In addition to the Time Warner/U S West/Silicon Graphics partnership, cable giants TCI, Cox and Comcast have joined forces with the long-distance company Sprint to develop a design of a seamless nationwide system for delivering cable and telephone service. Meanwhile, a number of the Baby Bell phone companies have turned to Hollywood. Ameritech, Bell South and Southwestern Bell (now SBC Communications) are teaming up with the Walt Disney Co. to develop and distribute movies, games and other programs to home viewers...
...program, including a succession of bona fide classics: Where's Charley?, Wonderful Town, The Pajama Game, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Pal Joey. All of them were marked by what came to be known as the "Abbott touch," which eschewed psychological depth for a seamless, balletically precise progression of word, movement, song and stagecraft, all at a pace somewhere between high spirited and frenetic...
...interaction in Taylor's groups starting around 1963 with the addition of drummer Steve Murray and saxophonist Jimmy Lyons is startling. These musicians are thinking so fast! On a recording such as the 1966 album Conquistador (airing on WHRB around 11:00 p.m.), the group produces music as a seamless whole. It is for this reason that Taylor chose to name his groups "The Cecil Taylor Unit," which he takes to mean, "a community of men feeding each other, relating to each other, and speaking to each other in musical, architectural sounds which have been passed on to them...
...Sony have already introduced new 32-bit game players in Japan, and Nintendo last week gave analysts a sneak preview of what its 64-bit Ultra 64 will look like. The wait -- and the extra computer power -- seemed worth it; in action scenes the Ultra's images were as seamless and smooth as, well, television...
Sunset Boulevard opens on Broadway tonight after debuting last year in Los Angeles. "It's Andrew Lloyd Webber's most seamless score and it features a dazzling star turn from Glenn Close as the faded movie star Norma Desmond," says Michael Walsh, TIME contributor. Walsh predicts it's destined to be a big hit and, like other Webber blockbusters, will tour before long.Post your opinion on theSocietybulletin board...