Word: visual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...office every five minutes. Going back to school and getting a master's degree really changed things, didn't it? Perhaps it is this sort of realism that is missing too often from her TV spots on Good Morning America. Television's appetite for visual gags forces her to be a comic entertainer, not the wise-guy satirist of the newspaper column. She has a natural talent for mugging, but when she tries, typically, to cope with an eccentric dentist who wears a Superman suit, or to record a hit country tune in Nashville, or to interview...
...room with figures or a peep into a garden from a window, and is regulated by layered memories of conversation, sexual tension and private jokes. But this is conveyed by an extraordinary blooming, spotting, bumbling and streaking of color, an irradiation of the mildly anecdotal by the aggressively visual. The small size of Hodgkin's canvases puts a high premium on their quality of touch (which rarely falters), but the color counts most...
...resenting 13 countries and ranging from the four square traditional to the cryptically avantgarde, will have shown their wares at Los Angeles' Olympic Arts Festival. By last week the offerings already had a definite, almost made-in-California stamp: bold, even daring, with an emphasis on the visual and spectacular...
After taking a heavy course in abnormal psychology or early human development, you might consider two evenings a week of movie greats, in Visual and Environmental Studies S-195, "Film Masterpieces." The classics analyzed include works by Bergman, Fellini, Hitchcock, Ford, and Capra. But don't be misled--you won't get by without a price. In this case, the "screening...
...often have a fresher eye for detail than most natives. In every section, one guiding spirit can be detected: Wurman's childhood hero, Paul Klee. He explains, "Klee's paintings had a shorthand that described action, feeling, color, mood. They were not about painting but communication and visual literacy." The overall technique could be a model for future encyclopedias. In Hawaii Access, for example, there are entries on surfing and shells that are definitive in guidebook terms. San Francisco Access includes such regional lore as the mechanics of the cable car and the winemaking process...