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Word: blende (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...toward which progress has already been made-pictures that reproduce objects in their natural colors, and that give the impression of depth as well as of height and breadth. Colored cinemas are already being shown regularly. But they are painful to watch; the colors, notably the reds, do not blend properly. Pictures giving the illusion of three dimensions have also been cast and screened. To behold them, spectators have been obliged to use special and cumbersome opera-glasses. Nonetheless, these are stages on the way to perfect photography, and it may well be that upon his next trip George Eastman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Expeditions: Apr. 16, 1928 | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

...There is nothing routine about these productions of familiar operas. Rosing, the director, is full of original ideas, which are carried into execution in a spirited manner by members of the company. The settings of Robert Edmond Jones are a happy blend of impressionism and historical realism. The operas are sung in English, not in the old hack translations, but in careful adaptations of the words to the music by Robert Simon, the music critic of The New Yorker. For 'Faust' he has prepared a skilfully adapted libretto, while for the other operas English versions have been carefully, though less...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW OPERA STARS PLEASE, IS OPINION OF CRITIC | 3/23/1928 | See Source »

...Motive: To enable typewriters to blend with the color scheme of office, library, or livingroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashions: Office Equipment | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

...Smooth Blend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: VERSE | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

...great physical discomfort, many a hairbreadth escape, but never for an instant ceases to be a perfect English gentleman. He rides in a circus, skins through a fire, hides in a creek, saves lives right & left while preserving himself for a happy and innocent ending. Author Marsden's smooth blend of color and complication might well start the addiction of conscientious objectors to the detective story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: VERSE | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

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