Word: serializer
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...according to Jacobsen, Connally grew anxious that some of the bills had been circulated after 1971. Connally gave him yet another $10,000 on Nov. 25, 1973, Jacobsen told the court, to replace the first bun dle, but FBI agents discovered that it contained 16 bills with serial numbers that had not been in circulation in 1971. That disclosure caused Jacobsen to make a deal with prosecutors and agree to testify against Connally...
...current show, "Francis Bacon: Recent Paintings 1968-1974," testifies to his success in that haughty project. When Bacon was first talked of in England 25 years ago, his images of ectoplastic businessmen and screaming Popes, based on such then unlikely-sounding sources as pioneer Cameraman Eadweard Muybridge's serial photographs of human and animal motion, a textbook on radiology, stills from Russian Director Sergei Eisenstein's movies, and an exquisitely colored handbook on diseases of the mouth, were seen as a Guignol of existential dread. Indeed, the scariness of Bacon prevented many people from experiencing his work aesthetically...
After the death of Stravinsky in 1971, Carter emerged as the most important composer in the U.S. To the uninitiated, his recent orchestral and chamber works can sometimes sound like the serial music of Arnold Schoenberg spun out to infinity by a modern-day sorcerer's apprentice. To those who listen hard and well, they constitute some of the most profoundly evolutionary, if not downright revolutionary, music of our time. It is somber, dark music that is not primarily intended to provide instant pleasure. Composing thus, Carter is a true child of the age of anxiety, but in matters...
...Record the make, model, and serial number of valuable equipment to increase the chances of recovery if stolen...
...this quasi-scientific model demands a candor about means and ends in each painting or sculpture. Every painting of Bill's is in some way a demonstration of its own making. There are no "occult" design systems; everything can be deduced from a simple grid and from serial repetition. So in Construction from a Theme from 1946 (1967), the five main colors make their appearance in turn: first a stripe of blue pushing out the black at the top, then a lavender stripe displacing the blue at the left, then a red behind the lavender at the bottom...