Word: flicker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Degradation. Both RCA and CBS are highly skilled at pointing out faults in the other company's system. First, says RCA, the CBS pictures are "degraded." This means that CBS, to increase the number of pictures per second and thereby avoid flicker, has had to reduce the number of scanned lines in each picture from 525 to 405. Thus, the "definition" is reduced and the grain of the picture is made coarser, like a newspaper cut compared to an illustration in a slick-paper magazine...
...process of squeezing assorted stool pigeons until they quacked like ducks, the Spanish cops rounded up five train robbers, the pants (Congressman Richards' still had a rabbit's foot in one pocket). Congressman Keogh's wallet and $3,800. They announced, not without a flicker of national pride, that the theft had been accomplished at the town of Las Casetas with a fishing pole. The Congressmen accepted their belongings gratefully. At week's end the Generalissimo received the visitors with the air of a man who runs in train robbers on time...
...Facts of Life" makes no attempts at seriousness and thereby avoids all the vices. A young Englishman's adventures in Monte Carlo against his father's advice makes for one of the lightest and pleasantest brief moments to flicker across the screen in some time; but it is better seen that talked about...
When the discovery of cortisone was announced last spring by four Mayo Clinic researchers (TIME, May 2), sufferers from arthritis* got a guarded flicker of hope for the future; cortisone almost always eases the symptoms of their crippling affliction. But the new drug is only a palliative, not a cure, and must be used continuously or the symptoms return. It is also pitifully scarce...
Falla: Suite Populaire Espagnole (Isaac Stern, violin; Alexander Zakin, piano; Columbia, 3 sides). The six parts of this suite were originally written for voice and piano; in this transcription, Violinist Stern catches every flicker of flame arid fillip of flavor. Falla at his Spanish best. Recording: excellent...