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...peak volume because the feelings it surveys are big and deep. Matters of lust and death are too important to be spoken; they must be sung, shouted, thundered, wept -- and shown, in all their delirious force. At its vagrant best, Aria reminds viewers of the original arithmetic of cinema: sight + sound = sensation...
Upon first sight of Damon, the voracious Crimson licked its collective lips. In warmups he conceded a lack of power by throwing an array of timid breaking balls. Marcel Durand, the Crimson leadoff batter made the hurler look even more vulnerable when he laced a single into right field. But for the next eight-and-one-third innings, Damon was untouchable...
...dance. At 1:29 a.m, the Harvard Police received a complaint about "nudists singing the National Anthem," one policeman said. The approaching patrol car sent the singing group running for cover. By the time the police arrived, the policeman said, there was nobody--no bare body, that is--in sight...
...most American children of the past half-century, a Disney cartoon feature was the sacred destination of their first trip to the movies. Disney taught kids what a film could be -- how it could blend sight and sound into enthralling art, how it could salve your soul and scare you to tears. Alone in the dark, awed by images bigger and bolder than any dream, children shuddered through a skein of traumas that Walt had devised for them: the outrage of kidnaping (Pinocchio), the ridicule of deformity (Dumbo), the death of a mother (Bambi). Long before the '80s scourge...
...making a major commitment to RISC. IBM Vice President Andrew Heller suggests that RISC technology could produce startling advances in electronic speech recognition, machine vision and artificial intelligence -- all of which require superfast microprocessors. Says Heller: "Computers that can listen and talk back, and recognize objects on sight, are not so farfetched. RISC will help make all that a reality, and it's going to happen this century...