Word: eye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...budgets, promises to turn into one of the flashiest tussles ever. Polaroid chose Oscar night last month to introduce its Pronto instant-picture camera before a television audience of millions; it backed up that campaign with an advertising blitz in national magazines. Kodak has the same eye for glamour. Capitalizing on the Bicentennial, it will begin national marketing of its new cameras on July 4, although some cameras will be sold before that...
...keeps its distance, regarding astronomy as a rather old-fashioned and superstitious discipline. Professionals these days call the field "astrophysics"--a label which may bring them closer to other scientists, but alienates them still more from the average person. The problems astrophysicians deal with often seem, to the common eye, ascetically dry, scholastically obscure, and maybe irreverent...
...demonstrates the blink comparator, which is used to note changes in the light intensity of a star over time. "You put one plate on this side," she says, "and one over here. Then you look through this eyepiece. The machine flashes the two pictures in front of your eye alternately, fast. Anything whose light intensity is changing will show as blinking. They find optical correspondents for X-ray sources that way, for example...
...through many of the scenes, saucereyed, plopping her lines into the laps of others. But her acting improves when she's in good company; she's fine in the rape scene, where Chris Sarandon gives a controlled performance of a moderately sick young man, without resorting to the crazed eyes and maniacal gestures of the stereotype. And her willful strength in the courtroom is the reflected glow of Anne Bancroft's fiery performance as her lawyer. Bancroft, looking rather haggard, uses her familiar tight-lipped, manipulative and superbly confident persona for the forces of good this time; here...
Peking. But the book keeps an appreciative eye out for ambiguity, as when the Great Helmsman personally calls a halt to the Red Guards' activity. In the students' fiery intransigence Mao must have seen embers of his own youth...