Word: versions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Japanese public will get a condensed version of the Harvard experience next month when television station Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK) airs a 45-minute documentary on the university...
...original pump, built in 1764, was the only source of water in the Yard until 1863, when Grays Hall was built with indoor plumbing. Pranksters demolished the pump in 1901 and the version now standing ws built...
...matter of fact, I don't particularly want to see this version made--I better not say why. Some of the people involved I'm crazy about, others I don't approve of," she says. (The Hollywood Rumour Mill states that actress Allie Sheedy is one of the persons being talked to.) "I don't have any say--my opinion is solicited," Robison adds...
Grant, nevertheless, that colorization does turn art into junk. Our culture produces megatons of junk every year. Why not let the market decide? What's with the boycotts? If the colorized version is as bad as the critics claim, it will fail for good capitalist reasons. No one will watch it. When enough people lose enough money in any venture, it dies; 3-D died. At best (or worst), colorization might carve out a market niche for a small group of cultural illiterates, the video equivalent of Classic Comics...
...colorizing is popular," writes the New York Times's Richard Mooney, "it will inevitably drive the original versions out of circulation." The sheer volume and, with improvements, prettiness of colorization will dull the taste, then the demand for the original. "What worries me," says Producer George Stevens Jr., "is that, psychologically, the films will cease to exist in black and white. The new version will replace the old in the public's mind." In short: the market shapes tastes; a corrupt market will corrupt tastes...