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...around the city of Rennes. This year the phone company has been giving systematic demonstrations to local groups all through the region. The service seems to be catching on. "People come expecting something much more complicated than the simple machine we actually show them," says Jean-Claude Lanoe, a technician involved in the promotional campaign. "By the time the demonstration is over, everyone asks, 'So when are you going to bring us these machines...
Essentially, panning and scanning requires a technician to isolate a portion of the wide-screen action, recopy it onto tape or film and discard whatever else around it does not fit. In the process, 20% to 60% of the original image can be lost. The pan-and-scan technician moves optically over the film, creating tracking shots the director never intended; he can also delete, by necessity or miscalculation, vital pieces of visual information...
...eyesight. Earlier treatises on El Greco's paintings have tended to expatiate on the mystical side of his inspiration and the aberrant elements of his style. This splendid show, which embraces his more mundane commissions and his most grandiose projects, demonstrates that he was an extraordinary technician...
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Ironically, official Chinese proclamations regularly stress the need to build friendship with foreign peoples. Yet some Chinese who become friends with foreigners are not only intimidated by police but penalized at work. One young Shanghai laboratory technician was recently denied a promotion because, he was told, "you have violated the rules governing contact with foreigners." The technician had failed to report associating with a foreign friend to the lab's security department. For foreigners, too, the new restrictions have been noxious and unsettling. "You never know," says one diplomat, "when simply inviting a Chinese over to your house...