Word: split-second
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...ignorance and apathy are not an indifference to the world: We are involved in grassroots activism for environmental and social causes. We are disgusted with American political culture. As a generation raised on a constant flood of split-second MTV images, we are both accustomed to soundbite politics and sick of it. Although we adore television and enjoy moments of political video ("Make my Day"; "Where's the Beef?"), we also recognize their emptiness. The moments are brief diversions and nothing else...
Anderson discussed art often in her performance, referring to the NEA controversy and the disappearance of the avant-garde. She jokingly speculated about a hypothetical Museum of Recent Art, bemoaning the difficulty in defining the word "modern" in a world where time is measured in split-second sound bytes and MTV video flashes...
...editing on a VCR calls for extraordinary patience and split-second timing. That's where the computers come in. With an automated editing machine -- like Videonics' $599 DirectED PLUS -- instructions for making cuts can be punched into a keyboard as the footage rolls by on a TV screen. The computer remembers the markings, and when the tape is played again, the machine automatically splices together the chosen sequences. Computers can also be used to generate titles, graphics and fancy scene shifts -- like the "tumble," in which one image seems to turn over to reveal another...
...women in black were looking for extra redemption in their competition against Princeton. The Tigers had beaten them out at Nationals last year, as well as earlier this year, so the split-second loss was particularly painful...
...least one early-warning satellite is parked over the Indian Ocean at all times, using its infrared eye to scour Iraqi territory every 12 seconds for the hot flare of a missile launch. Upon detection, an astonishing split-second relay of signals is set into motion. First, the satellite sends its data simultaneously to an Air Force ground station in Woomera, Australia, and to the U.S. Space Command's Missile Warning Center near Colorado Springs. Computers in Colorado instantly sort through the information, identify individual missiles, project target areas and flash the results by satellite back to the gulf...