He is a member of what might be called the prices-in-the-provinces school of academic history, a practice that emphasizes events outside the capital and makes much of weekly economic fluctuations; what was spent for bread in Lyons, not what was said over coffee in Paris, shaped the course of events.
Even Harley-Davidson is trying to drop its bad-boy image by de-emphasizing events featuring scantily-clad women with some stores launching Instagram accounts dedicated to picturesque motorcycle outings.
The fact that Twitter needs a new way to approach live content shouldn't be a surprise, the company has teased Project Lightning, an upcoming feature that heavily emphasizes events, and investors have called for the deconstruction of the timeline as Twitter's central hub.
Luke's account emphasizes events before the birth of Jesus and centers on Mary, while Matthew's mostly covers those after the birth and centers on Joseph.
And while the Kuwaiti version of the past does not stint on praise for the U.S. and other nations that came to this country's aid, it emphasizes events that are often overlooked in Western accounts, including the bravery of civilian militia groups in fighting the Iraqis and the defiance of women who staged street protests.
And Nerve, a sex and dating site based in New York, says it is working on a mobile application that will emphasize nearby events.
While government officials now emphasize improbable events involving chemical or biological arms, less is being said about how to be ready for two macabre threats the public is unprepared for: atomic explosion, and the radiological, or "dirty," bomb.
The tournament is set in motion by an impresario, himself a chess master but not at all a programmer, and the event is preserved for posterity by a young man who is entrusted with videotaping it (as if to emphasize the event's cinema-specificity, those two roles are played by Gerald Peary, a film critic, and Daniel Metz, a film programmer, respectively).
Photocopied imagery from newspapers and other print media emphasizes bleak events; AIDS figures prominently.
