Word: visual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shakespeare on Shakespeare: A Little Touch of William in the Night--Boston Visual Artists Union, 77 N. Washington St., Boston...
...unusual motivation for running: He is a Jew, and wants to counter anti-Semitism with an Olympic victory. While Liddell races for love, Abrahams races for hate; Liddell's gift is natural, an inspiration, but Abrahams must work hard to win. In a facile attempt to provide concrete visual proof of Abrahams' Judaism, director Hugh Hudson cast Cross, whose dark complexion and hooked nose reflect the stereotypical conception of a Jew. The problems don't end there; Cross badly overacts. It is the desire to show' em all that lends fire to his eye and wings to his feet, granted...
...research team since 1959, Hubel and Wiesel have studied the workings of the cerebral cortex's visual region, only a small part of the organ Wiesel terms "the most complicated machine on earth...
...goal is to understand how images from the eye are translated in the visual cortex to the language of the brain, Hubel says. The dream is to map the machinery of the mind...
...search of what they call the "neural substrate," the two researchers began implanting sensitive electrodes into the brains of anesthetized monkeys. The electrodes monitored individual cell responses from within the visual cortex; in a laborious process, Hubel and Wiesel tested the reaction of specific cells in specific areas of the visual cortex to the specific images placed before a monkey's eyes...