Word: visualization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cannot escape the lure of decadence), Veronika travels down Sunset Boulevard to a dead end. Fassbinder's black-and-white palette turns neon into a soft, blinking Cyclops eye, slices light into flickers with an overhead fan, dapples windows with rain stains, all to re-create the visual style in which Veronika could feel at home and alive. As she sings in a final drugged reverie that reunites the featured players of her life, "Memories are made of this." She dies, as her creator would, in an overdose of glory...
...Front, and in the original. Enough said. A Midnight Clear, like William Wharton's previous novels, Birdy and Dad, does not benefit from having its plot laid bare. The author's gift is an ability to convey emotional clarity in simple prose that transforms incongruities into sharp visual impressions. Snowy woods are both Christmas cards and killing grounds; the château is fortress and cultural repository. A violin liberated from beneath the rafters becomes part of an unusual still life when it is casually set against a box of hand grenades...
Arthur L. Loeb, senior lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies (VES), will become acting master of Dudley House for this year, pending Corporation approval, Dean of the College John B Fox Jr. '59 said yesterday...
...Modern: 1880-1980," the dazzling exhibition that opens this week at New York City's Cooper-Hewitt Museum, hits us, therefore, like a massive surprise attack. Some 330 masterworks of furniture, ceramics, glass, metalwork and textiles show that Scandinavian design is not so much a style as a visual morality, a powerful force for beauty and meaning. Nor is the modern mode of Scandinavian design frozen into an abstract machine aesthetic. It is a creative way of meeting changing practical and emotional needs. Seen in this context, Danish modern is fresh, exciting and timeless. Like Finnish Architect Alvar Aalto...
...three decades of arid, overly intellectualized music produced by the post-war avantgarde. Although minimal music is often tightly organized, its objective is to create a mood in the listener, not to have him follow a complicated puzzle. Minimal music (the term is borrowed from the less-is-more visual-arts movement of the '60s, led by such artists as Sculptors Sol LeWitt and Donald Judd) invites the audience to revel in hypnotic sounds and take delight when one prolonged, incessantly repeated passage suddenly gives way to another. It is a kind of musical kaleidoscope whose each new turn...