Word: visualizers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Students with visual and learning disabilities can have materials read to them or recorded for them by the Lamont Library Reader Service, in the basement of Lamont Library. The service also loans recorded books from the National Library Service for the Blind...
...want to just martyr itself and show videos all day. What it did instead was learn how to make videos feel like programs, to hold viewers even when a bad song comes on. On 12 Angry Viewers, young people are asked to review videos on the merits of their visual style, although, despite repeated instructions, they can't seem to keep from talking about the music instead. On MTV Probe, kids are taped, cinema verite-style, expounding about what videos mean to their lives. In one 35-second segment, a guy explains to his friend, "You can do anything...
...says. "It takes a lot of work to get writers and producers to understand what preschoolers are capable of digesting. And the second principle is that any type of narrative structure should be as linear as possible. Also you should not overburden the child with a juxtaposition of visual images and sounds." Finally, Anderson says, a preschooler's daily life is full of things that are new, so shows should not reach for novelty...
...critic Robert Hughes would have the sensitivity and perspective to see artist Robert Rauschenberg [ART, Oct. 27] as the Walt Whitman of the 20th century art world? Who could better distinguish the American character of Rauschenberg's work than a critic who just completed a marathon book on our visual culture, American Visions? KIT BASQUIN Milwaukee...
First-time director Andrew Niccol brings considerable visual style and an intriguing premise to this story of a Brave New Worldish society in which the pre-planned, genetically made-to-order elite get the honors and opportunities, and the natural births are relegated to the grunt work. Ethan Hawke plays a "natural" who borrows the identity of a brahmin to fulfill his lifelong dream of leading a mission to outer space. Although the film suffers from unevenness, sketchy characters and muted acting, Niccol's striking images make it all easy to overlook...