Word: visualization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Medical School professors last week won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their research on how the brain processes visual information. Dr. David H. Hubel '55, Berry Professor of Neurobiology, and Dr. Torsten N. Wiesel '57, Winthrop Professor of Neurobiology, shared the award with Dr. Roger W. Sperry, a professor at the California Institute of Technology. During nearly 20 years of collaboration, Hubel and Wiesel discovered the method by which the retina transmits information to the brain. The Nobel Assembly cited the scientists' work as a "breakthrough in research into the ability of the brain to interpret the code...
...precisely the time when the queen city began, like some Venice of modernism, to slide into debility. It is a simplification, but not a wholly unfair one, to say that during those 20 years Paris felt, interpreted and amplified all the historical tensions of its time except within the visual arts. The moral triumphs of the period, in France, belong more to literature than to painting or sculpture...
Measured by the high standards he has set in the past, Reagan's speech was fairly pedestrian. Missing were any of the visual aids that he often uses and his calculatedly simple elucidations of complex issues. He failed to explain the real reason why new cuts for 1982 are needed -namely, the failure of the economy and the credit markets to respond to the promise of upcoming tax cuts. The President did note, correctly, that inflation has fallen in recent months and that "there has even been a small crack in interest rates...
...most venturesome new show is Enterprise, 13 often entertaining half-hours about American business, starting Friday. But the series falls short in ways familiar to viewers of commercial network documentaries: an aimlessly neutral, "objective" tone; a visual style that is decorative rather than narrative; and frequent excursions into colorful but unimportant byways-the packaging of a bestseller, auctioning of thoroughbred horses, marketing of Kentucky Fried Chicken in Japan...
...work together to create the two very different settings. Filmed in the seaside town of Lyme Regis, Dorset, the 19th-century backgrounds are impossibly green fields, lush forests, and dark, crashing waves. The music supports the imagery, strings welling up in the background to suit this vivid and strikingly visual interpretation of every Victorian novel ever written. The blacks are black and the whites white in this world of sin and expiation where the characters care deeply about the conventions they transgress. Today's world, in contrast, appears in crisp, colorless light, everything modern and vaguely jet-setty. Porsches cruise...