Word: visual
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There was a fundamental flaw in your selection process. By beginning your search for the 100 with neat categories and subcategories, you oversimplified a complicated century and avoided the most interesting debates. For example, by allowing room for only one writer and one visual artist, you begged the questions, Are writers and artists equally influential? Is a TV host as important? Could there be a second writer whose influence outweighs, say, Bart Simpson, your choice as cartoon character? You effortlessly sidestepped these questions. And so again an interesting idea is dumbed down for an impatient society. PETER MARTINO Roxbury, Conn...
...Percentage of men who visit sex sites online who prefer sites with visual erotica vs. those who prefer chat rooms...
...Percentage of women who visit sex sites online who prefer sites with visual erotica vs. those who prefer chat rooms...
...upped the ante by being as immediate as radio and as visual as the movies. Indeed, TV's mesmerizing hold is something unprecedented. A major TV event is overwhelmingly a shared national experience, and a TV star is a celebrity of a new order. When Lucy Ricardo has a baby, when Seinfeld goes off the air, it's not something that's happening out there--it's an event in our homes and in our lives...
...made it his own, leaving the material crudely unfinished, inside and out, the marks of wooden formwork plainly visible. Concrete allowed Le Corbusier to explore unusual shapes. The billowing roof of the chapel at Ronchamp, France, resembles a nun's wimple; the studios of the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard push out of the building like huge cellos. For the state capital of Chandigarh in India, he created a temple precinct of heroic structures that appear prehistoric...