Word: flashbulbing
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...Taking a photograph, however, turned out to be extremely difficult. Beta is twice as bright as the sun, and its light easily overwhelms that from any faint material around it. Trying to discern the surrounding matter, says Terrile, was "like trying to see a match next to a flashbulb...
...older moviegoers, the reappear ance of these films offers a chance to fit half-forgotten pleasures (the flashbulb climax of Rear Window, the clashing of cymbals in The Man Who Knew Too Much, the belltower climb in Vertigo) into familiar patterns. But a gratifyingly large part of the audience consists of young people who may know Hitchcock only as the little fat figure with the funereal air who hosted a TV show back in the black-and-white '50s. Until now, their image of the man and his work was that of a brand name without a product. "Hitchcock...
...white plastic card with the blue writing, the photographic paper, and the flashbulb cost $2. Five minutes of the photographer's time is worth at most a dollar, and that's assuming a wage scale more appropriate to junior partners in a New York law firm. Oh, all right, throw in the insurance necessary to cover the possibility that the camera will explode in a hail of plastic shrapnel. That's still only $5, and a $20 overhead strains credulity, especially since you're already paying for overhead with the $665 College Facilities...
...study proposed that after the crucial Freudian years of six to eight, a child suddenly becomes proficient at recording complex script memories. "That analysis led us to become interested in when the flashbulb goes off," White says...
...groundwork for White and Pillemer's current research was laid in 1977, when Brown and James Kulik published the paper in which the term "flashbulb memory" was proposed--a study of memories of President Kennedy's assassination Based on that project, Pillemer went on to apply the same methods to conduct similar inquiries into memories of the 1981 assassination attempt on President Reagan and women's memories of the onset of menstruation...