Word: flashbulbs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cleaved, in Baudelaire's phrase, to "the heroism of modern life"; even nature, as in Arboretum by Flashbulb, 1942, acquired a sharp inorganic speediness under Davis' city eye. Toughness, aggression, careful construction were as characteristic of his art as of the New York it celebrated. The aims of constructivism - an ideal system, beyond dialectics - meant little to him. Reality, for Davis, was dialectic and it expressed itself in strain. His paintings are all about unstable energy, and in this too he was a most "American" artist. No matter how firmly Davis insisted on their abstract basis...
...from Kodak. At the Kodak annual meeting, held on the same day as Polaroid's, Chairman Walter Fallon indicated to a generally critical audience that the company is not trying to develop an instant-movie system. Instead, it is concentrating on other goals, including trying to eliminate the flashbulb in still photography by making a whole new series of amateur cameras to use high-speed film. In March Kodak introduced a fast color film with an ASA rating of 400, but so far it can be used only in complex cameras, not most of Kodak's Instamatics...
...that have been reported by spacemen on previous voyages. Scientists believe high-energy cosmic rays impacting on the eye's retina or the brain's optical center cause the flashes. During the hour-long test, the astronauts reported seeing a total of 61 flashes, which Scott compared to a flashbulb's popping in a darkened arena...