Word: seamless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hemlock, incense cedar and sugar pine. Gone the centuries-old firs in their noble dotage. Increasingly, the forests have been transmogrified into tree farms of numbing uniformity, countless ankle-high seedlings and spindly saplings germinated from seeds selected for their productive capacity. The logging operations have tattered the seamless fabric of old growth that once covered the land. "There are more holes in the blanket than there is blanket," laments BLM biologist Frank Oliver. According to the National Audubon Society, each year enough old-growth trees are taken from the Pacific Northwest to fill a convoy of trucks...
...talk to one another. In 1987 editorial operations director Gerard C. Lelievre decided that it was time for all our machines to speak the same language. He set out to combine all stages of creating an issue of TIME -- from words, design and pictures to print -- into a seamless electronic process. Lelievre was interested in more than scoring a technological breakthrough. "Computers give editors more flexibility and more control," he says. "This edge provides the reader with a better-looking magazine with more late-breaking news...
...movie isn't handsome or measured or seamless -- the very notion of a well-made film would offend the director's antiaesthetic -- but once it gets revved up, Cry-Baby is keen fun from the onetime Belial of Baltimore. From now on, Hollywood, that's Mr. Waters...