Word: visual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Studio Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies Louis J. Bakenewsky simply requests "two new tenured positions in the VES department...
Wilson says he thinks Harvard students have been sensitive about his visual-impairment, calling the campus "the best environment I've been in so far." He adds, "Most people here are more intelligent, so they have no trouble seeing through that...
...crisp appearance of each page is ensured only because coders endlessly scrutinize the placement of every bit of information. "We are completely involved in the visual detail of the page," says Gary Deaton, who supervises TIME'S crew of ten coders. "We pore over every millimeter of the magazine to make sure that everything falls in place, that border lines don't overlap and that pages have a uniform appearance...
...frame also has its uses for artists looking to make abstract work more articulate. Two years ago, Robert Morris began showing a series of white bas-relief works that seemed to vent nuclear anxieties in a visual language of medieval fatalism. Embedded in an infernal slurry of plaster, human faces and fractured skeletons held the poses of apocalyptic death agony. This year Morris returned to painting with a series of more ambiguous abstractions. But a skeletal frieze has been retained along the frame to specify the note of mortal dread. Similarly, in 1979 Jasper Johns embedded a train of cutlery...
Cryer could probably carry No Small Affair nonetheless, but he gets none of the cinematic support that made the management case study of an aspiring businessman in "human satisfaction" into a success in Risky Business. Where that film, for instance, used exaggerated shots to distort Joel's parents visually, matching their distortion in the mind of the aspiring pimp, here Director of Photography Vilmos Zsigmond displays none of the visual creativity he and steven Spiclberg brought to Close Encounters of the Third Kind. It is as if he simply ran the production like a Broadway show...