Word: fuzzing
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...belong in psychiatric journals or future editions of Ripley's Believe It Or Not. We meet Dale, a 33-year-old man who is deeply upset each day by the late afternoon sun. There is Tim, a boy of three who won't eat in the presence of fur, fuzz or feathers. And there is the young man so traumatized by an incestual experience of his youth he "spent most of his waking hours in elaborate rituals of bathing." This is the stuff of grade B movies. It is also the stuff on which Wolpe comes to rely...
...James Caan) is good at his craft. And Thief deserves credit for presenting a hard, cool look at how the ancient art of safecracking has adapted itself to the latest advances in electronics and metallurgy. But if Frank is too smart ever to get caught in the act, the fuzz might consider busting Michael Mann's debut film for loitering with intent to talk existential philosophy at the scene of the crime...
...future flies. Ten years have already passed since Alvin Toffler published his bestselling Future Shock and emerged as the world's best-known manipulator of the fast-forward. Traveling the globe, lecturing businessmen and collecting the fuzz that grows on the inside of think tanks, Toffler became an orbiting Walter Winchell. Bulletins from the leading edge beamed down on Mr. and Mrs. America and all the ships at sea. The effect could be stimulating but, too often, Toffler's redundant delivery and overheated prose turned kernels of truth into puffed generalities...
What makes this trash so flashy and, in its own nasty way, so irresistible, is its unashamed appeal to the lower emotions and the exuberant ingenuity of its rococo plot. Like one of those electric lint brushes, Dallas' industrious writers have picked up a little fuzz from most of their betters, all of their equals, and one or two of their inferiors. Whir, buzz. Here's a thread from Shakespeare's voluminous mantle: that old blood feud betwen the Montagues and the Capulets, or, in this case, the Ewings and the Barneses. Hum, grind. There...
...term f/64 designates the smallest lens opening on cameras then used, the one that gave the greatest depth of focus and hence produced images that were sharp from foreground to background. To these photographers, f/64 also stood for "straight" photography, as against pictorialist fuzz. Instead of continuous tone, they went for high contrast. They also cropped and isolated their subjects: driftwood, seashells, worn rocks at Point Lobos, or the polished interior of Weston's Mexican toilet bowl...