Word: syncing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were a 25th of a second ahead of the backup. For human beings, a 25th of a second is a mere blink of the eye. But for the computers it was a yawning gap that put communications between the overeager main machines and their back-up badly "out of sync," turning their exchanges into electronic gibberish. Said an exasperated controller in Houston: "The back-up computer simply couldn't talk to the other four on board. The computer guys have never seen anything quite like this...
...such matters has not merely shifted, it has come full circle. The exhibition now on view at the Brooklyn Museum, "The Realist Tradition: French Painting and Drawing, 1830-1900," would not even have been attempted by an American museum 15 years ago; the subject was too grossly out of sync with opinion. It was mandatory, for instance, to see an artist like Manet-with his dandyism and blague, his risky spontaneity and breadth of touch-as a father of later modernist painting. The fact that he also had deep affinities with "retrograde" realists of his own time...
...original reflected its founding genius, Harold Ross. ("Its general tenor will be one of gaiety, wit and satire," the prospectus said. "It will hate bunk," and would not be "edited for the old lady in Dubuque.") Its clever, brittle style survived the Depression but seemed frivolously out of sync when World War II began. So, war coverage was introduced, culminating in an unsparing report on Hiroshima by John Hersey, to which Shawn persuaded Ross to devote an entire issue...
...film experiment as dry as the dust on a neglected library shelf turns out to be a spectacular juggling act: of documentary and fiction, analysis and creativity, determinism and free will, comedy and tragedy, the past and the present. The three jugglers-Gruault, Resnais and Laborit-work in perfect sync, perhaps because their own pasts have prepared them for this challenge. Gruault's scripts have often described characters dominated by their emotions or by the whim of the historical moment. And nothing could be more natural than that Resnais, whose films have played with the real and imagined past...
...BUDGET. Greenspan: The budget is severely out of sync. Reagan's program would hold federal revenues to less than 21% of G.N.P. in 1985. Carter's proposal accepts a huge rise in the tax burden to nearly 24% of G.N.P. This is a turning point in American history; unless we choke off budget growth, we cannot rebuild the economy...