Word: statically
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Another downside is that the actors’ blocking, which is generally effective, feels constricted when confined to one corner of the stage (which happens more often than one would like). Scenes feel static, crowded or both, as in one early scene when the lax Kaffee sits on the edge of a table during a meeting. The choice is appropriate for his character, but it blocks the poor actor behind him from the audience’s view...
Among the instruments that Schechner shows off is a giant wheel suspended by a pair of girders, once used to create static electricity. Alone, this device might not offer much light-hearted entertainment, but it was connected by wire to a model schoolhouse that could be packed with gun powder and detonated. Schechner says this strange apparatus was likely used in 18th-century classrooms to rouse sleepy students drifting off in the back of the class...
...albums. If Calix’s glitch symphonies were ones and zeros come alive, Takemura’s playful sonic freak-outs were the machines themselves speaking. Blocky polygon men sang along with the disembodied voices; kids frolicked with pixelated woodland creatures during musical lulls. Seemingly senseless static became a conversation between two clay figurines...
...benefits. Luckily for the industry, digital radio's pluses are easily explained: clearer sound and more choice. Digitalization transforms sound into the binary codes of 1s and 0s, which can be transmitted as audio waves free from interference. The result is a CD-like broadcast unmarred by the hiss, static and drift that bedevil analog stations. And because digital uses little bandwidth, it allows for the transmission of many more channels. Niche stations already available in Britain range from all-film music to classic rock to One Word, a station that features audio books. Advertisers are keen to embrace digital...
...reminded that, although a fetus may look ugly, a fetus will inevitably (that is the key word) become a cute little baby. Perhaps if some young women out there considered this fact—instead of deluding themselves into seeing “fetus” as a static abstraction—perhaps they would think twice before denying an innocent person his or her inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness—however humble or short that life might...