Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visual effect of II Combattimento was less satisfactory. Director Ian Strasfogel made a noble effort to overcome the difficulties inherent in staging a pantomine which has to move as slowly as its verbal description; but the rather stylized battle he gave Titus and Miss Mandac was unimaginative and full of gaps in which nothing in particular happened. The abstract slides projected on a blackboard behind the performers added little or nothing, and the sunset that appeared behind Clorinda's dying speech was downright embarrassing...
...professor at Instant College would have done well to quote the Navy League's pamphlet describing Harvard's Carpenter Center for Visual Arts this way: "It exemplifies conceptualistic innuendo pyramided upon spatial forbearance and is altogether tokenish of tactile cosmological luminous volumentality...
...have Marshall McLuhan and Bob Dylan, and who can forget Colonel "Shorty" Powers, sometime Voice of Project Mercury, describing Gus Grissom's first landing? "The drogue parachute is deployed, and the astronaut has a visual indication of it" (The drogue chute is open, and Gus can see it), and "The astronaut has indicated that he will proceed to effect egress" (Gus says he's coming...
...that such linguistic artistry wasn't taught earlier. Think of the World War II Navy pilot who had a chance to report, "Have received visual indication of hostile submersible and deactivated its flotation capability." Instead, all the poor linguistic cripple could say was "sighted sub, sank same...
STUDENT: No, sir, they have verbal symbols and visual representations...