Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tajiri is an unimposing man, his face composed of sharp angles. His hands and lips tremble as he talks in a soft, shy voice. His eyes are bloodshot; dark circles ripple beneath them. He often works for 24 hours straight, then sleeps for 12. Tajiri is the kind of person the Japanese call otaku, those who shut themselves in with video games or comic books or some other kind of ultraspecialization, away from the rest of society. "They know the difference between the real and virtual worlds, but they would rather be in a virtual world," says Etienne Barral...
...soon. Lights went up. Blinking, the crowd members stared at each other. Encore? He'd played almost all the songs on the Darkdancer album. But the encore was not to come, nor would there be surprising covers or stuff from the first album (Liberation). It was short, sharp. For an hour and 15 minutes, LRD had avoided being faceless and anonymous. For an hour and 15 minutes, LRD had personality. For an hour and 15 minutes, Jacques lu Cont had achieved his goal. But the fact remained: an Axis that was only half-full meant LRD were in this case...
They're out there. The guys who get up 10 minutes earlier, who always seem a little more together, who know they look sharp when they're hitting the town on a Friday night--they might even live right next door. So who are these mystery men? The elite, the few, the proud: the guys at Harvard who blow-dry their hair. They may not admit to it, even when pressed, but these hair-care-oriented men walk among Harvard's unkempt rabble every day. Pete Steciuk `03 is one example of these rare gems at Harvard. A regular hair...
...influence of computer technology and thus the questions it raises have become more widespread, computers have found an increasing place in the art world. And whether their ubiquity is celebrated or condemned, computers in pop art are rarely emotional symbols. Hard and analytical, they form a sharp contrast with the emotional confusion of humanity...
...than substance. The goal here, after all, is to sell computers. But when Ive says, "We didn't start with engineering dictates. We actually started with people," his statement has more meaning than the typical car commercial. Computers live in our offices and our homes, and everywhere their gray sharp-edged packaging advertises their status as the "other." But computers are flexible beasts, and housed within Ive's "emotional human forms" packaging they could lose some of that alien aloofness. We could be more natural around computers. Perhaps instead of worrying that we will become too much like computers...