Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expensive television project in history is sending out lucid and poetic montages of body and mood. For TV often catches all the beauty of an event but loses something of the feeling, like a fashion shot that captures a perfect face while leaving one unmoved. Technology can make everything seem too technical: slow motion slows emotions until they seem unreal; instant replays replay the instant again and again until it means less and less, like Warhol's soup cans. Carl Lewis in flight, Jackie Joyner-Kersee in extremis are things of beauty: taken apart on the picture tube, they lose...
...comparison, plays cunning tricks with dimension, makes the teddy- bear-size female gymnasts seem larger than they are, the redwood basketball players smaller. And TV distances as it disinfects, replacing an event with a picture of an event, the unimaginable with an image. Most of all, TV, by breaking down miracles into their component parts, makes them somehow add up to less than the whole -- unweaves, in Keats' phrase, the rainbow...
Compared with those games, today's contest with Cornell will seem if not easy, then at least manageable...
...fair. He relies too heavily on stereotypes, especially in a bit about a high-powered, slimy executive of a type that is already familiar from Mamet and movies like Wall Street. In another somewhat ineffective monologue, Bogosian creates a Spinal Tap-like over-the-hill rocker, and the jokes seem stale and repetitive...
...People seem convinced that being able to do math is having a style of thought which is conducive to math, " he says...