Word: transmitting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Syntax of Fantasy. What connects Klee's inner vision to present experience is not his power to transmit "reality" but the enchanting spectacle of his language. His inventiveness was phenomenal and contained surprising propositions for, and anticipations of the future. Flower Myth, 1918-with its squiggled symbols for plants and trees and chirpy bird flying across the red landscape of an equivocal torso that might be Mother Earth-is the ancestor of the flattened, wrinkled landscape-nudes, scrawled with graffiti, that Jean Dubuffet was to paint thirty years later. It is a syntax of fantasy, the color swelling...
...There is no one whom I have ever been able to discover within A.T. & T.," continued Johnson, "who has a sense of the social-political-economic role of the telephone in a modern industrial society. They can design, promote, distribute and install a Princess telephone that will transmit the human voice. But they are seemingly incapable of thinking about the ways in which people might use that instrument in their lives. What would be the social impact of universal availability of a low-price long-distance service without a per-call charge? They don't know...
...older people whose deafness is caused by progressive nerve damage, which can often be corrected by artificial hearing aids. But a significant number are younger people whose impairment is triggered by disease or injury to the tympanum and ossicles (see diagram), the eardrum and tiny vibrating bones that transmit sound waves to the inner...
...something like a telegraphed, last-ditch mass suicide threat on the part of the movie-going public. For this film's enormous success clearly has little to do with its cinematic merits, which are not all that numerous, and everything to do with the morose message it manages to transmit. Five Easy Pieces is about emotionally handicapped people trying desperately to ward off terminal psychic disaster-and, accordingly, its phenomenal appeal seems very much a symptom of a national mood bordering on emotional collapse...
Until drainage is adequate, California may have increasing trouble with its Anopheles mosquito, which can transmit malaria from infected to healthy humans. Though not immune to insecticides, that bug proliferates in stagnant water and may spread more and more disease. Reason: about one percent of returning Southeast Asian veterans are infected with malaria. What really worries health officials, though, is Culex tarsalis, the second mosquito species that has foiled all insecticides in California. Culex transmits encephalitis, a disease that attacks the human brain. California's most recent encephalitis outbreak occurred in 1952, the year DDT failed, and a major...