Word: space
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sometimes difficult to deal sensibly with television. In some people, TV excites grandiose and quasireligious visions -the future zoom of its open-ended possibilities, the way it collapses old relationships of time, space, sight and sound, or can tear up reality and reassemble it to the point that the medium's ambitions seem extravagantly metaphysical. To others, TV is all of civilization's banality crammed into a buzzing home appliance designed to cause brain damage. As a witness to actuality -its "news function"-television can be journalistically incomparable (Newton Minow exempted news from his famous 1961 charge that...
...figured that he would need the space for displays to get Macy's out of the budget business and upgrade its image as a family store. Says Finkelstein: "What New York needed was a department store that would talk to families in the middle and upper-middle income groups. There are many stores for the lower-middle income group-Korvettes, Alexander's-and Bloomingdale's is for the upper-middle and upper-upper." At the same time, he wanted to attract younger customers who are more conscious of their own needs, less of their children...
...Under one roof. It has 1 million sq. ft. of selling space...
Even for the city of stars, it was a cosmic event at the Hollywood Bowl. On the program of "Music from Outer Space-a Star Wars Concert," was the Los Angeles Philharmonic, under Zubin Mehta, playing excerpts from Gustav Hoist's The Planets and Richard Strauss's Thus Spake Zarathustra, better known as the theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey. For special effects, each instrument stand in the orchestra had been hooked up to a microphone controlled by sound engineers, and stabbing rays of laser light began crisscrossing the bowl. As the music changed in intensity, the laser...
...everyone will be December 14, the date the council has scheduled a public hearing to consider the petition. If the council approves a change in the zoning map, Harvard will be left with about one-seventh the building space it has now--which will still be enough room to build...