Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Smith Reader generously demonstrates, the columnist preferred to write about athletes with a touch of the rogue. His portrait of Babe Ruth is a small masterpiece. It ends with two Yankee teammates, Waite Hoyt and Joe Dugan, sitting together at Ruth's funeral on a sweltering day in 1948. "I'd give a hundred dollars for a cold beer," Dugan whispers. "So would the Babe," Hoyt replies...
...child's hand reaches out tentatively. Years of haranguing ("Keep your greasy fingers off the TV!") have made the screen taboo. But when the child sees that his finger causes the image to change, learns that his touch magically provokes new pictures, sequences, words and diagrams, his hand begins to jab, rub and slap the screen. Curiosity, once aroused, is satisfied by simply touching a picture of what one wants to understand. This process is re-enacted thousands of times every day at the U.S. Pavilion at Energy Expo '82 (a.k.a. the Knoxville, Tenn., World's Fair...
...energy-related terms. Don't know what a Pelton wheel is? Press the word on the screen, and presto!, a swirling water turbine appears. A different set of screens shows a colorful cutaway drawing of a house. Wondering how to make your home energy-efficient? Just touch the attic, for example, and watch a demonstration of how to insulate it. According to Emmett Cunningham of the U.S. Department of Commerce, the genial director of the exhibit, "It's the best and most durable public information system I've seen in 25 years in the exposition business...
...system, says its unflappable designer, Tom Nicholson of the New York City exhibition firm of Ramirez and Woods, "personalizes" information. Determined to avoid an intimidating computer keyboard, he employed a "user-friendly," touch-sensitive screen. Pressure on the screen tells the computer to retrieve the information stored on the videodisc corresponding to the word or symbol touched. Although the computer makes the system truly responsive, what makes its applications so exciting is the versatility of the videodisc. And you thought the disc was the Edsel of video technology...
...creation of enticing disc software and increased awareness of the computer in the home. It should be understood, says M.I.T.'s video wizard An drew Lippman, that "the videodisc is peripheral to your personal computer, not the televison set." And that the admonition "Look but don't touch" applies to oil paintings, not TV screens...