Word: colorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...away angrily from Nordwig's extended hand. Seagren returned to shake hands, but his anger was scarcely concealed. "The only difference between the pole I'm using and the one I used two years ago is that this one is 500 grams lighter and painted a different color. Every major vaulter in the world, including Nordwig, had access to the new poles before...
...CLAUDIUS Hurtling back through history for a couple of millenniums, we encounter the parlous state of Rome in decay as depicted in I, Claudius. Historical plays of this sort are like a cram course with illustrated color slides. The audience can never quite settle down to the entertainment for fear of some impending exam. Knowing the names of the characters does not really help, since their natures change with bewildering rapidity. Click: here is Messalina gamely struggling to protect her virginity from Caligula. Presto: here is Messalina, Empress to Claudius, cuckolding him wholesale in the foulest brothels of Rome...
...company's marketing specialists anticipate a list price of $400 to $500-about the cost of a color TV -for the attachment. Prerecorded disks would not be priced much higher than phonograph LPs and would contain 90 minutes of programming (45 minutes on each side). Video-tape cassettes now sell for about $35 and contain an hour's viewing time...
...needle. And instead of grooves, Philips' shiny aluminum disks have millions of microscopic "pits" that produce variations in the intensity of the laser beam's reflection as the disk spins. A photodetector translates the reflection into electrical impulses, which are then fed to the TV screen. The color is truer than that of any image transmitted over the air from a TV station. The disk could also carry stereo sound along with the picture...
...poetic fitness, since Lawrence wrote this most lyrical draft in Italy, inspired partly by the sensual "bright and dancing" frescoes in the Etruscan tombs at Tarquinia. It is substantially longer than the famous version, but no more obscene-which is to say that today it seems about as off-color as a Tiepolo cupid...