Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What is Tea in the Harem about? There isn't really a plot. There isn't much witty dialogue. You just watch two boys live. It's beautiful. And it makes you wonder why Americans need lots of flashy color, bitchy one-liners and stereotyped characters to make a movie, when Medhi Charef can make a film this powerful from a series of sensitive pictures and lifelike conversation...
...minute videotape and nine photographs, all in color and shot 12,500 ft. under the North Atlantic, were a tiny sample of the 60 hours of video and 60,000 stills garnered during the twelve-day exploration. They were released at a Washington press conference conducted by Marine Geologist Robert Ballard, 44, who led the teams from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution that found the Titanic last September and revisited it this July...
ROVs and other high-tech underwater equipment are no longer the exclusive province of oil companies and the military. Hydro Products of San Diego markets for only $35,995 a 56-lb. model equipped with a panning and tilting color- TV camera and capable of diving to 330 ft. Says Hydro Products Executive Bob McKee: "You can just throw it into the back of your pickup, run out to the site and throw it into the water." Prices are also dropping for such devices as side-scan sonar, which generates high-resolution images of the ocean bottom, and sub-bottom...
...Botha, agree on at least one thing: South Africa's problems will be resolved by its own people, in the main without reference to the world at large. Indeed, the reform program that Pretoria has carried out over the past two years, including an end to the color bar in sex and marriage and legalization of black residence in urban areas, was announced in Botha's speech opening Parliament in January 1985, months before South Africa became front-page news in the U.S. and Western Europe...
...list was gradually narrowed further. Many facilities, for instance, were relaying legitimate telephone or video signals on the night of the attack. HBO technicians provided one helpful clue. Exactly one week before Captain Midnight's attack, the service's programming had been interrupted briefly with a pattern of color bars. It was apparently the work of the same person; thus it seemed the culprit had access to the facility at the same time on both nights. Another important tip came from an accountant vacationing in Florida who had overheard a revealing conversation about Captain Midnight at a pay phone...