Word: fuzzier
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...shape of things to come is fuzzier than a static-fogged TV screen. Jittery as they are, the moviemakers know that a rapidly expanding TV needs their talents and their products. TV men concede that more than 50% and possibly as much as 90% of future TV entertainment will have to be on film. Smalltime independent film producers are already busily grinding out TV shorts. Even Skouras guardedly admitted last week to 20th Century-Fox stockholders that part of the company's studio would be devoted to making films for TV in the home. Going much further, veteran Producer...
...judging his distance from an object; pedestrians sometimes walk smack into a truck at the curb because they suppose that the dark mass they see is a building across the street. Dr. Miles offers a tip on how to judge distance at night: the nearer an object is, the fuzzier its outlines are; move the head from side to side-the object will seem to move rapidly if it is close by, slowly...
Sport fans have long been accustomed to rowdy baseballers grousing about the ball they are compelled to use. As tennis-balls have grown fuzzier (to please hard-court players), some tennists have begun to grouse, too. Last week, during the Seabright Invitation Tournament, first of the four major grass-court tune-ups before the National championships at Forest Hills, all the top-flight U. S. tennists roared their disapproval of the extra-fuzzy tennis ball put in use this year (and well liked by the average player because it lasts longer), loudly demanded that some of its fuzz be removed...