Word: blur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leading man, Ralph Richardson seems sometimes to be trying to convey so many subtle expressions at once that the audience gets only a physiognomic blur. In general, though, he comes through clearly and often very delicately as a man whose sturdily conventional head has been subjected to a little more than the traffic will bear...
...Wright, who always appeared to be a pretty girl, is made to look careworn and greying as the mother. But an even greater error in judgment than this is the showing of the film on the new Panoramic screen. Since this greatly magnifies the picture, quick movements flicker and blur. Besides this, Spencer Tracy is now not only in front of the viewer but on each side as well. It seems a misuse of technology somehow...
...Utah range sheep used in all the trials had never before seen a dog or a pen. As Rock and Art Allen waited tensely at home plate, the dog's unruly charges were let loose in far center field. Shouted Allen: "Go on wide away!" In a furry blur, Rock shot off on his "outrun," circling wide and closing in slowly for the "lift." As the sheep testily pawed the turf, Rock calmly fixed them with a mesmeric eye. This nearly hypnotic power is the proud sheep dog's most important quality, and sheepmen claim that...
Today, Jones thinks the Adler-Jung heresies have "pretty well faded out," but in his forthcoming massive biography of the master, he concedes that Freud's was "not a complete, rounded-off theory . . . but a gradually opening vista, occasionally blurred and again clarified." Last week's conference brought at least one blur. Dr. Edith Weigert of Chevy Chase, Md. reported that, while theoretically the patient "transfers" to the analyst, it can work the other way too. Sometimes, said Dr. Weigert, "in phases of negative transference" the analyst's "own anxieties exceed those of the patient...
...understatement of the week. In 2-D movies, eyes point at the screen and focus on the screen . . . 3-D techniques demand that the human turn his eyes inward, much nearer than the screen for which he is focused. Then he has a choice of letting the picture blur, seeing the object double, having nausea, dizziness or "eye-strain," or staying away from...