Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kindness: Opening of artist Ping Chong's first environmental exhibit. List Visual Arts Center...
Another popular lecturer is Thomas Professor of Divinity Harvey G. Cox, who this year taught "Jesus and the Moral Life" in the Moral Reasoning section of the Core Curriculum and a course on Latin American liberation theology. He credits his popularity to his use of visual and audio aids...
...flash and dash of Miami Vice has not been universally welcomed. Some critics have objected that the show makes violence alluring by dressing it up in pretty photography; others complain that coherent stories and fully drawn characters have been junked in favor of visual flourishes and a rock beat. Some of the show's creators admit there is a certain laxness about narrative matters. Says Lee Katzin, who earned an Emmy nomination for his direction of the episode Cool Runnin': "The show is written for an MTV audience, which is more interested in images, emotions and energy than plot...
...best, Miami Vice has brought to TV a swift and evocative mode of visual storytelling. Points are made through looks, gestures, music, artful composition. In one of the season's best episodes (written by Playwright Miguel Pinero and directed by Paul Michael Glaser, the former co-star of Starsky and Hutch), Glenn Frey's song Smuggler's Blues both enhances the mood and comments on a tense story in which Crockett and Tubbs pose as drug dealers to set a trap for a vicious kidnaper. In the climactic sequence, the cops race to defuse a bomb that has been wired...
Even a Ninja warrior might have a hard time competing for attention with what many consider the real stars of Miami Vice: the music and the visual pyrotechnics. Both are largely the contributions of Michael Mann, who joined the show as executive producer when NBC decided to turn Yerkovich's pilot into a series. Mann had directed the stylish film thriller Thief and the TV movie The Jericho Mile, as well as creating the TV series Vega$. But Miami Vice marked his first opportunity to bring a cinematic eye to the small screen...