Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mirrors are arranged so that red light from the red tube is reflected to the eye of the viewer from the red-reflecting mirror (see diagram). Blue light from the blue tube is reflected by the blue-reflecting mirror, but passes through the red-reflecting mirror to the eye. Green light from the green tube is not reflected at all. It reaches the eye direct. The viewer sees the three pictures superimposed so that they blend to form a full-color picture...
...retorts that definition isn't everything. More important, it claims, is the amount of "information" the picture conveys to the eye. The faithful colors in its system, CBS insists, give so much extra information that the viewer is glad to sacrifice a little definition...
...Goldmark, turns out pictures which are bright, crisp, and at least as faithful as most colored movies. Their own special ill is a so-called "color flash." If the viewer looks away suddenly, he sees the picture momentarily in a single color, because of the persistence in the eye of the last one-color picture seen. A color flash is seldom noticed unless it is looked...
Gettysburg & Gainsborough. Though Hiram Parke now does little auctioneering himself, he still has a quick eye for the furtive lapel-clutching, pamphlet-waving, nose-pulling signals that can mean a bid. And he has not lost the ability to keep bidding at the fever pitch that he first showed more than 50 years ago in his first auction, when he sold a $20 gold piece for $100. In his galleries the hammer has swung on such fabled items as the fifth and final manuscript of the Gettysburg Address ($54,000), the Bay Psalm Book, first book published...
...going 'brrrr' in front of Bergdorf's"). But what may be his final fling finds him corralled at last by a barbed-wire surtax: while his stern better half sits guard near by, the fat, fading Park Avenue playboy casts a hungry eye toward a torch singer's double exposure-on television...