Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appeared elongated to him, but so would his canvas. If he painted precisely as he saw, the effect would have been self-correcting. An astigmatic person may see a circle as an ellipse, but if asked to draw what he sees, he will draw a circle. I bet an eye doctor would back me up that El Greco's elongations were artistic, not optical, aberrations...
...will do many important seeing jobs faster and better than humans can. One project is to make it produce contour maps from air photographs. It will do such monotonous jobs 24 hours a day without getting tired or bored. Human factors will have little effect on the seeing-eye computer. It may even learn in time to search through a rogues' gallery and pick out a single face. It will judge by the stable features and will not be misled by beards, scars or other embellishments...
...secret, but estimates range as high as $100 million. Secrecy is an M.C.A. policy because the firm believes that publicity is for clients alone. To further their anonymity, M.C.A. agents dress as conservatively as bankers; the M.C.A. black suit is legend. And no one tries to dodge the public eye more than M.C.A.'s small, greying founder, board chairman and boss, Jules Caesar Stein...
...dream cottage in a rural real-estate prospectus. The actors play in a welter of unrelated styles. But the most important trouble with the picture is that it was ever produced. O'Neill's characters are not people; they are symbols. And the camera has a cynical eye that cannot seem to help reducing whatever tries to be larger than life to very small potatoes...
...starting a new life in Montana. With war's end Andrea's dream fades away, leaving him and Kitty to fall back into their old doldrums. This affecting little story is full of understanding of the Italian way of life and scores a bull's-eye in the portrait of Kitty, so long expatriated from the U.S. that she is more Italian than her Italian husband, and can conceive of Montana only as a "pink rectangle on the map, larger than all Italy...