Word: visualizers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) 176: "Visual Mathematics," students use everything from the latest multi-media software to metal compasses to discover concepts of symmetry and spiral design...
...class is taught by Senior Lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies Arthur L. Loeb, who knew Escher personally. His teaching style is hands-on-students learn by doing, not by memorization...
Unable to decide if he wants to scare us into being enthralled by the film, or present us with visual candy, Branagh falls short on special effects, particularly with those for the ghost of King Hamlet. Perhaps attempting to prove his knowledge of Saxo Grammaticus, one of Shakespeare's main sources for Hamlet, in which Hamlet Senior is more a demon than a shade, Branagh plays up Hamlet's first meeting with his father after his death like a campy horror film. Hamlet runs, panting, through a forest of wind-bent trees, while smoke bellows out of the ground seemingly...
Then, of course, the reality sank in. Bill Cosby, the father who works as an actor whose specialty is playing fathers, had lost a blood, not a visual, relation. And had lost him not to a plot turn but to a bullet. Still, the whole thing didn't quite compute for me. Gunfire was never a part of The Cosby Show. Roadside homicide didn't figure in. According to the same dramatic logic that ruled out rape on Gilligan's Island and domestic violence among the Brady Bunch, murder on Cosby just wasn't possible...
...Public servants are ignorant or lazy or just plain crazy."The film's villains are from Central Casting, the cops from Keystone," says TIME's Richard Corliss. " But that's not what matters. Taking a page from the Martin Scorsese handbook, Curtis Hall smartly heightens moments with epic visual declarations (slo-mo, negative images, gigantic closeups). The speeches are arias, the shots operatic, complex. Shakur also serves as his own elegist. 'All the things we talked about' he says of Cookie when he thinks she might be dead, 'things she wanted to do -- then she ups and dies...