Word: streamed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan was a televised image, distant, serene. Like Big Brother, the leader in Orwell's 1984, Reagan manifested himself chiefly as an electronic impulse, an ionized, ethereal stream. He gave the illusion of closeness, familiarity, and all the while secluded himself...
Terrington shut down both engines and slammed on the brakes. The jet, trailing a stream of smoke, fishtailed to a halt two-thirds of the way down the runway on a taxiway, just 200 yds. from the fire station. By the time the call from the emergency control tower came in at 7:13 a.m., firemen were loading into five fire-fighting vehicles equipped with foam. They reached the burning craft within...
What does he do here? He experiments with the ramifications of an insight that came to him several decades ago. Paik was perhaps the first person to perceive the TV screen as a canvas and, ergo, the stream of electrons that creates images on the picture tube as paint. Presto, video art, which means scrambling, bending, rearranging or just generally messing around with the picture on TV sets. As practiced by Paik and his followers, this tinkering can lead to anything from vivid static and colorful snow to whimsical sculptures of the video age. When New York's Whitney Museum...
...yellow. Twenty years ago, more than half of all immigrants came from Europe and Canada. Today, most are Mexicans, Filipinos, Vietnamese, Koreans, Indians, Chinese, Dominicans, Jamaicans. They scramble up across the border near San Ysidro, Calif., in the middle of the night. They get off their jets and stream through Customs at Kennedy. They arrive in the trunks of cars or wash up in foundering boats on the Florida Keys...
Though nothing new, the brain drain has recently seemed more than ever to be taking from the poor and giving to the rich: whereas 30 years ago most well- qualified newcomers to the U.S. arrived from Europe, now they stream in from the poorer countries of the Third World. "It is indeed paradoxical," says Dr. D.N. Misra, adviser to India's Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, "that the underdeveloped countries, which have the greatest need for scientists, engineers, managers and other professionals, are in fact losing many of their best-educated young men to the developed countries." Even among...