After becoming New York's de facto Red Light District in the 1960s and 1970s ( as can be seen in the films Taxi Driver and Midnight Cowboy ), since the late 1980s Times Square has emerged as a family tourist center, in effect being Disneyfied following the company's purchase and renovation of the New Amsterdam Theatre on 42nd Street in 1993.

An arts writer for the New York Times called it " possibly the best unmanned art history lecture you'll ever experience ," while acknowledging that some viewers might respond to it as " mediocre art, Disneyfied kitsch or a flamboyant denigration of site-specific video installation.

The image of the gnome changed further during the 1960s to 1970s, when the first plastic garden gnomes were manufactured.

It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.

Thornburg knew, better than any of them, that a public image was as fragile as Humpty Dumpty.

Harvey said his objective was to create a better public image for welfare ''.

He was awarded a fellowship to continue his studies in Tokyo and he packed up his clothes, the biwa upon which he had been practicing and his image of Acala, and left to spend a week at home before leaving the country.

When he rose in the morning, the image was still there.

The AMPAS was originally conceived by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio boss Louis B. Mayer as a professional honorary organization to help improve the film industry ’ s image and help mediate labor disputes.

Its modern development was initiated in the 1970s when it adds a modern instrumentation to the image of the electric guitar, synthesizer and drums.

Divination was based on spontaneous movements of this image.

This embodies the belief that the image was somehow the god or man himself.

It was during the prolonged absence of Moses that Aaron yielded to the clamors of the people, and made a Golden Calf as a visible image of the divinity who had delivered them from Egypt ( Exodus 32: 1-6 ).

This image of a fully mature " Venus rising from the sea " ( Venus Anadyomene ) was one of the iconic representations of Aphrodite, made famous in a much-admired painting by Apelles, now lost, but described in the Natural History of Pliny the Elder.

The representation of Aphrodite Ourania, with a foot resting on a tortoise, was read later as emblematic of discretion in conjugal love ; the image is credited to Phidias, in a chryselephantine sculpture made for Elis, of which we have only a passing remark by Pausanias.

Budge surmised that Abrasax was " a form of the Adam Kadmon of the Kabbalists and the Primal Man whom God made in His own image.

He thought that the image of " Apollo riding his chariot across the Sun was appropriate to the grand scale of the proposed program.

As he was dying on the voyage back from Egypt, he gave instructions to those close to him that they should not be responsible for making any image of his person, be it modeled or painted or copied, " For if I have accomplished any glorious feat, that will be my memorial.

Ajax, who in the post-Homeric legend is described as the grandson of Aeacus and the great-grandson of Zeus, was the tutelary hero of the island of Salamis, where he had a temple and an image, and where a festival called Aianteia was celebrated in his honour.

* In mid-2009, Fleming was commemorated on a new series of banknotes issued by the Clydesdale Bank ; his image appears on the new issue of £ 5 notes.

image: Ap17 strolling. ogg | Harrison Schmitt sings I was strolling on the Moon one day.

This matte contains the coverage information — the shape of the geometry being drawn — making it possible to distinguish between parts of the image where the geometry was actually drawn and other parts of the image which are empty.

The book was very popular, and contributed to an image of the discoverer as a solitary individual who challenged the unknown sea, as triumphant Americans contemplated the dangers and promise of their own wilderness frontier.

Synchronization of the receiver disc rotation was handled through sync pulses broadcast with the image information.

An image of the Indian rhinoceros, the image has such force that it remains one of his best-known and was still used in some German school science text-books as late as last century.

image: Goelbirdnests06390137. JPG | Bird nests built by Gaudí in the terrace walls.

Steiner built upon Goethe's conception of an imaginative power capable of synthesizing the sense-perceptible form of a thing ( an image of its outer appearance ) and the concept we have of that thing ( an image of its inner structure or nature ).

To create a beautiful image, some bridges are built much taller than necessary.

To do this he built a special printer in which the negative running through a projector was projected into the gate of a camera through a special lens giving a same-size image.

The house featured in the image of Kings Head St to the left, is unique in the town and is an example of a sailmaker's house, thought to have been built circa 1600. Notable public buildings, all later, include the parish church of St. Nicholas ( 1821 ) in a restrained Gothic style, with many original furnishings including a ( somewhat altered ) organ of the same date in the west end gallery, and the Guildhall of 1769, the only Grade I listed building in Harwich.

Although he never built a working model of the system, Nipkow's spinning disk design became a common television image rasterizer used up to 1939.

On Mars he has built his image of the perfect haunted mansion, replicating the building from Edgar Allan Poe's short story " The Fall of the House of Usher ", complete with mechanical creatures, creepy soundtracks and the extermination of all life in the surrounding area.

They built enormous stone statues carved in the image of human beings on Pitcairn, the Marquesas, and Easter Island that resembled those in Peru.

* Dynamic use of individually and separately built software components ( executable program images and kernel modules ) rather than a statically linked single monolithic image.

Between 1902 and 1907, Arthur Korn invented and built the first successful signal-conditioning circuits for image transmission.

Super 8 was often erroneously criticized, since the film gates in some cheaper Super 8 cameras were plastic, as was the pressure plate built in to the cartridge ; the standard 8 cameras had a permanent metal film gate that was regarded as more reliable in keeping the film flat and the image in focus.

This gatehouse, built as a mirror image of the College's Great Gate, contains a statue of the benefactress Mary Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury, added in 1671.

Creating the image to be printed is done by a Raster Image Processor ( RIP ), typically built into the laser printer.

Steven Sasson as an engineer at Eastman Kodak invented and built the first digital camera using a charge-coupled device image sensor in 1975.

Because user programs can be built into the boot image, the set of device drivers and support libraries needed for startup need not be, and are not, in the kernel.

And he built Medeba and Beth-diblathen and Beth-baal-me ” On, and he set there the … of the land .” The stone is defaced at this point so we do not know what the King set up, but it was likely an image of his god, Ashtar-Chemosh.

Nor was there among them formerly any image or statue of the Divine Being ; during the first one hundred and seventy years they built temples, indeed, and other sacred domes, but placed in them no figure of any kind ; persuaded that it is impious to represent things Divine by what is perishable, and that we can have no conception of God but by the understanding ".

* The Basilica of Our Lady of Candelaria ( in Candelaria ): The place where the image of the Virgin of Candelaria ( saint patron of the Canary Islands ) can be found, this sanctuary is built in neoclassical style, and is visited daily by the parishioners, who visit the Villa Mariana out of devotion to the Virgin.

The basic idea of using three monochrome images to produce a color image had been experimented with almost as soon as black-and-white televisions had first been built.

The " Le Phoebus " camera was typical, it was built of mahogany wood with a brass mounted lens in a rack and pinion focuser to adjust the projected image sharply onto a ground glass at the back.

The most that may be suggested is that some of the descriptions of Roark's buildings, in part, resemble those of Wright: a notable example being the " Heller House " – the first of Roark's designs to be built – cantilevered over the edge of a cliff in a descriptive image reminiscent of Wright's famous Fallingwater in Pennsylvania.

He built a special sound room which incorporated the earliest quadraphonic audio systems, and he modified Sony Trinitron televisions for projecting the image.

It is built between 1682 and 1697 by Father Fernando Méndez on a site where supposedly an image of the Virgin Mary appeared inside a box.