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- <text id=89TT3019>
- <title>
- Nov. 20, 1989: Anything On TV Tonight?
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Nov. 20, 1989 Freedom!
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 96
- Anything on TV Tonight?
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- <p>By Emily Mitchell/Reported by Wendy Cole
- </p>
- <p> What do you call a hookup of 300 screens, miles of cable
- and spare bits of a British-made missile-guidance system that
- was part of the Strategic Defense Initiative? Not Star Wars, for
- sure, though it won't get off the ground either. Media master
- NAM JUNE PAIK labels it Fin de Siecle II, and his video
- sculpture is part of a show that opened last week at Manhattan's
- Whitney Museum. Paik, 58, creates high-tech works "because I
- have nothing else to do. I was an electronic-music composer in
- the '50s, but there were too many of them and no electronic
- artists, so I changed." Starting as a primitive -- "I found 13
- used TV sets and went to work" -- he's entered the space age.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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