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James F. Clark '70 anchored the six foot-long portable plastic bubble to four boulders 25 feet under water and then inflated it with an air compressor floating above him on the surface...
...found in the sequences with dramatic purpose and direction: the blow-up sequence and the discovery of the corpse. Both deal with extended action--a lengthy process of printing and examining photo enlargements, and a long walk through a park--and Antonioni must use editing as a time-compressor, simulating the length of the event through montage, though actually presenting it in a much shorter period of time. This forces him to be economic, to use editing to convey the scene content. He succeeds admirably; the blow-up sequence and the park scenes are tour de forces of film-making...
Most of these problems are sidestepped by a new method: putting the boat in a bubble bath for the winter. Marina owners have found that a simple ½-h.p. air compressor, humming away throughout the cold months, can be used to pump air through perforated tubing that lies on the bottom of the harbor. The resulting bubbles then rise and carry with them the relatively warmer water on the bottom-the same lower strata of water that keep fish alive through the winter. Thus constantly replenished by water from below, the surface is kept above the freezing point, even when...
...technique itself is relatively uncomplicated -- bits of syllables are arbitrarily discarded by a special electromagnetic speech compressor machine. Cramer has found, through extensive experimentation, that the ideal "discard interval" is 14 milliseconds, or only 14/1000 of every second of recorded speech. Yet the result is good comprehension at rates up to 3 times as fast as normal conversation...
...House of Lords, in the British press and in the recollections of travelers, there were grumblings that BEA's troubles were more than a temporary matter of faulty compressor bearings. There were complaints of repeated delays of many hours, of misrouted baggage, of surly or couldn't-care-less service at ticket counters, of flights oversold by as many as 20 tickets, of cabin crews dispatched to the wrong planes, and of flights simply canceled at the last minute-as many as four in a day. Like other airlines, BEA prints conditions on its tickets, such...