Word: details
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...answers is easy: CBS color is good-in some ways better than Technicolor. It adds depth and detail to the TV picture. The colors themselves are vivid but not harsh. Some programs-sports, for example-gain immeasurably with the addition of color. But a poor TV show, of course-tasteless comedy, tired drama or stale vaudeville routines-cannot be freshened by all the hues in the spectrum. An entertainment egg can be laid as easily in color as in black & white-perhaps more easily...
...data released will not be up to date. The newest reactor to be described in detail is HYPO (for High Power), the Los Alamos "Water Boiler" which went into operation in December 1944. A lot of uranium has fissioned since then. In the guarded centers of the AEC's "technical areas" are more advanced reactors. But HYPO is effective enough, comparatively cheap and simple...
With all his skilled eye for detail and his affectionate eye for human trivia, Churchill never lost sight of the main objective. When he speaks of that, casting up accounts as they stood in mid-1943, the Churchillian prose rolls with the old indomitable diapason: "The entry of the United States into the struggle . . . had made it certain that the cause of Freedom would not be cast away. But between survival and victory there are many stages . . . Henceforward . . . the danger was not Destruction but Stalemate [yet] the hinge had turned...
There are a great many other faults in the Dean's new seven-page brochure, a book which largely brings things back again to where they stood early last spring. Later editorials this week will point out in detail why these rules are unacceptable and what revisions must be made...
Like his landscapes, the nudes are deceptively bland. For most of his 57 years, Kitchens has relied on sweet, misty color contrasts rather than drawing, drama, or detail; he has made sweeping strokes and smears of color stand for space, shape, weight and air. His method, he says, is like "playing" a tune-playing one color off against another. Sometimes it jars; sometimes there is no harmony and I have to start afresh. But when it fits it's wonderful...