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...television incarnation of Robert Hughes' American Visions is a vivid, exuberant tour of 400 years of American visual culture, in the same vein as Hughes' 1981 series on modern art, The Shock of the New. The new series, a co-production of the BBC and Time Inc., in conjunction with New York City's Thirteen/WNET, is being aired in two-hour segments on four successive Wednesdays from May 28 to June 18 (check local listings for times). Herewith a summary of the episodes...
Computers might one day be capable of expressing themselves in vivid prose or fluent poetry, but unfortunately they will still be computers and have nothing to say. The gap between human and surrogate is permanent and will never be closed. Machines will continue to make life easier, healthier, richer and more puzzling. And human beings will continue to care, ultimately, about the same things they always have: about themselves, about one another and, many of them, about God. On those terms, machines have never made a difference. And they never will...
...going to be quite a challenge to make a vivid impression on the freshmen," said Geoffrey C. Rapp '98, an executive board member of Holoimua o Hawai'i. "Unless we show them that there is a supportive community from Hawaii here, it is unlikely that they will want to be a part of our club...
Russia has undergone a feminist revolution in the mirror image of what has occurred in the United States. Natalia Baranskaia's "A Week Like Any Other" is an especially vivid example of the role of beauty and personal appearance in Soviet life. This story describes a week in the life of a Soviet woman. The heroine receives a questionnaire at work requesting information about how she spends her time each week. We follow her through a week and see her travel three hours a day on public transportation, prepare meals for her family, work in a high-pressure research...
Michael Fortier, prosecutors hope, will fill in the colors of the picture they have drawn. He will provide the vivid, firsthand account of McVeigh, the friend he asked to be best man at his wedding. He can describe McVeigh's visits to Kingman, Arizona, where Fortier lived and where McVeigh spent the weeks before the bombing. Most crucially, Fortier can say that on Dec. 15 and 16, 1994, he and McVeigh were in Oklahoma City, where they walked around inside the Murrah building (in which Christmas decorations adorned the day-care center). According to Fortier, McVeigh said this...