Word: visual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Visual and Environmental Studies professors probably got a big shock when they got to the last four minutes of Eames Demetrios's 70-minute thesis film. After 66 minutes of what viewers called outstanding technical work, the movie shifts to a four-minute scene of two people having sex--in absolute silence and with an unmoving camera. Audiences that saw it reacted with shock and silence. "There was nothing erotic about it at all," said one viewer. "It was shocking, and its message seemed to be that sex is meaningless. It was part of an entire view of life...
Bryan B. Jaffee '86. an Adams House resident, died of a heart attack suffered in front of Claverly Hall. A native of the Los Angeles area. Jaffee concentrated in Visual and Environmental Studies and was a member of the varsity water polo team...
Schultes' work with narcotics has led to developments such as mescaline, which causes a "beautifully colored visual hallucination," he says, and psilocybin, which is extracted from a mushroom plant native to Mexico. Both drugs have been used in psychiatry...
Just as importantly, the authors point out that biological deterministic dogma has falsely labelled various gender differences as facts. Men are taller than women, less emotionally dependent, more exploratory and able to orient themselves in open spaces, more visual and more reponsive to simple stimuli, and in general more successful. And the list goes on. But as the authors assert, these "facts" are simply the selective observations of scientists who wish to support their preconceived notions of a society divided along sex lines...
...televised stereo sounds begin to blast and screens grow larger, the television industry has plans for still more features. By next year, such companies as GE, Sony and Zenith will be selling so-called digital TVs. These revolutionary devices contain microcomputers that translate conventional, wavelike TV signals into visual and audio information that the viewer can fine-tune on the screen. On some models, the user will be able to zoom in on Liberace's diamond rings, for example, or freeze Pete Rose in mid-swat. Digital technology can also increase picture clarity up to 100% and would make...