Word: visual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shows have opened this month at Harvard to tempt the Cambridge area art connoisseur. "Pioneers of Modern Sculpture" appears at the Fogg Museum, and "Designs For Living: Symbolic Communication in African Art." is on view at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts...
...among the 24 students whose application to transfer to the Visual and Environmental Studies concentration this fall was denied. The reason for this, according to the VES department, is a shortage of faculty and teaching space, caused by insufficient funding from the central administration. If it can be considered the administrators' responsibility to distribute funds to best meet student needs, then in the case of VES they have, I believe, distressingly failed to meet this responsibility. Denying students such a fundamental educational privilege as a free selection of a field of study is a major hindrance to academic growth...
They grew up together in the '50s, but television and rock 'n' roll have always been contrary siblings. One soothes, the other threatens. One offers visual Pablum, the other musical grits. Even in the packaged and homogenized forms developed by such entrepreneurs as Dick Clark and Don Kirshner, TV has rarely accommodated its more rambunctious relative. Until now, that is. Warner Amex Satellite Entertainment Co.'s MTV (Music Television) is uniting the rival brethren in amplified harmony...
...simulated performance clips tend to be dull and repetitive: lip syncs sink clips. But the best videos enhance the mood of a song and expand TV's generally unadventurous visual vocabulary. Nightmarish images from Billy Joel's subconscious accompany his shouts in the song Pressure; Stevie Nicks floats through a moving Magritte painting in Fleetwood Mac's Gypsy...
...basis. Problems are resolved in a manner tailored to the individual's needs and the particular resources of the University. Often this means that obtaining access depends on the University's experience with that disability or the student's aggressiveness. Volunteer readers for students with visual disabilities are provided by the University, but students with hearing losses have long complained about being unable to get interpreters for classes. In general, it can be extremely difficult to obtain accommodations if they entail spending money...