Word: camera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inside, reading aloud from a law book. She knew and could quote law by the ream, to the confusion of municipal boards of estimate, aldermen, tax assessors, policemen. Once she was arrested for having ice in front of her house, obstructing the sidewalk. She got out her box camera, took pictures of ice in front of a couple of churches and a police lieutenant's house. She was acquitted...
Last week, neatly dusted off, 20 of Sculptor Browere's busts were exhibited in Manhattan's plushy Knoedler Galleries. Their realism predates the candid camera by a century. Browere's exact method died with his son Alburtus, differed markedly from the usual life mask's heavy layer of plaster or clay applied while the subject is flat on his back. Like a modern lace-pack beauty treatment, it consisted of a series of light, quick-drying layers that could be put on while the subject sat at his ease. Thus beplastered for posterity were Thomas Jefferson...
Kingsport, Tenn. (pop.: 11,914) lies among mountains full of Southern hardwood, not far from the coal fields of Virginia. Acquiring 40,000 acres of timber land in 1920, the No. 1 camera and film maker built a plant in Kingsport to distill methanol from waste "chemical wood" (limbs & tops, slabs & ends). They called their new subsidiary Tennessee Eastman Corp...
Each course has only one class a week-a two-hour seminar. The rest of the week a student spends in reading, field trips, conferring with her teacher. Field trips take students, with notebook and camera, to Manhattan's East Side, city subways, factories, Washington...
...wonder has abated. Even versatile Gene Towne is hard put to it to make the uneventful life of Eden entertaining for 93 minutes. He is equally hard-pressed to keep the book's romantic inspirations from seeming merely grotesque when viewed by the literal lens of a camera. A tame ostrich (apocryphally discovered dwelling in a South Sea jungle) taught to haul timber, a stuffed turtle towing a raft-load of gleeful Robinsons will divert children. For older boys there is always Mother Robinson (Edna Best) cavorting around in a pair of buckskin slacks...