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Word: visual (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...surmise from seeing the small army of technicians on a sound stage or location. Technology gave the silents a voice in 1927 (though some of the great silent performers, such as Charlie Chaplin, took their time about speaking), but more important, it enabled film to refine its unique visual language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Right Before Our Eyes | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

...expressive lighting, more sophisticated editing and, above all, more ingenious special effects that could bring to life prehistoric worlds of dinosaurs and future worlds of space travel. And let's not forget animated films, perhaps the purest cinema of all, in which technology allows the creation of an entire visual world unimpeded by such tiresome exigencies of the real world as sets, props and actors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Right Before Our Eyes | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

Burroughs also dabbled in the visual arts and appeared in several films, including Drugstore Cowboy and Twister, as well as Nike commercials...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Memoriam | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

Many people would use the word "amazing" to describe Summer, whose wide-ranging interests led one of her friends to do a photographic project for the Visual and Environmental Studies department, with captions from her ownwriting about homes and her experiences as awrestler...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wrestling Her Way to Harvard | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

...reason, according to some, is that this trend toward the visual has lead to an impoverishment of the quality of public discourse, giving opinion journals an increased role in filling the void...

Author: By Richard S. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A NEW REPUB-LOOK | 6/2/1998 | See Source »

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