Word: viewers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even more sophisticated effort to tame the VCR. The VCR Voice Programmer, a voice-activated remote-control device being launched nationally this week by Voice Powered Technology, eliminates button pushing almost entirely. Just bark commands into the microphone -- channel number, day, time -- and the machine does your bidding. A viewer can call out commands for a variety of other VCR functions as well, from "rewind" to "zap it" (whiz through the commercials...
From the first moments, when a merchant (voiced, as is the Genie, by Robin Williams) offers to sell the viewer a "combination hookah and coffee maker -- also makes julienne fries," Aladdin is a ravishing thrill ride pulsing at MTV-video tempo. You have to go twice -- and that's a treat, not a chore -- to catch the wit in the decor, the throwaway gags, the edges of the action. Blink, and you'll miss the pile of "discount fertilizer" Aladdin's pursuers land in; or the fire eater with an upset stomach; or half of Williams' convulsing asides. Chuck Jones...
...stark graphics she presents in "Visions of Choice," a poster series exhibition opening at 5:30 on Friday, October 30, at Lehman Hall in Dudley House, force the viewer to question his or her views on the right of a woman to control her body. Synthesizing her experience as a designer with the country's collective consciousness has allowed Randolph to create work that resonates both visually and intellectually...
...images are bold, daring and sometimes shocking, but each contains a subtleelement to provide that reward. A visually simpleposter containing only text that declares "Choice:A Woman's Right." As the viewer examines theposter, however, the H and O metamorphose into afemale sign, which reinforces Randolph's point...
...used sparingly, yet convey great detail--a few quick lines on a wall suggest hundreds of bricks. The warm color is built up with washes of brown and gray with pink highlights. Like the other pieces in the show, this work shows an intimate scene that gives the viewer a glimpse of the day to day life of this...