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Current issues of Time and News week provide many more examples of pictures taken with a lens that is just wide enough to produce sufficient distortion for the orienting response. A telephoto lens creates distortion of another sort; distance is compressed rather than stretched out. The use of a long...
Heating Up. The surge in par busting may be partly due to improvements in the tools of the trade: the whippy steel and fiber glass shafts of today's golf clubs, high-compression golf balls, the portable warmers used to heat up the balls so they will travel farther...
What Welch's protagonist comes to, first of all, is the noisy antiseptic indignity of life in a hospital ward. Patients are frenzied or conniving; doctors hearty and indifferent. Drifting in and out of fantasies, he plods a painful path from demi-death to limited life. Welch's...
The allusion in the third line promotes an aspect of compression rare in both the song and the album as a whole.
Julius Caesar is a no-nonsense play. It gets right down to business and sticks to business. There is no sub-plot, no comic relief, not even any mildly humorous lines except for a handful of Casca's; and the play is freer of bawdry than any other save Richard...