Word: glaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...observes concede that the new technology is prone to incorrect use, the main problem the Harvard guidelines aim at. Louis J. DiBerardinas, the University's chief industrial hygienist said yesterday that several offices have installed the terminals without concern for glare or the individual user's size Such factors can lead to vision impairment or back pains...
...manufacturers have replied that they are indeed concerned about visual fatigue and have made suggestions on how to modify environmental conditions like glare. Until employers agree to institute those changes, however, some VDT users may just have to squint and bear...
Friendships do not always grow well in the glittery sand of show biz. But Actresses Nastassia Kinski, 22, and Jodie Foster, 20, have become chums despite the glare. After meeting at an Aretha Franklin concert a year and a half ago, Occasional Journalist Foster, a junior at Yale, took up recorder and notebook for a Q. and A. dialogue with Kinski that ran, seemingly forever, in Interview magazine. They are reunited for the film adaptation of John Irving's Hotel New Hampshire, and the friendship continues. Luckily. The script calls for Kinski-who in the film spends the better...
Though a few films, like the 3-D Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone, seemed to shrivel in Jedi's glare, others gained: many people who could not get into the Skywalker saga took second best and picked a film playing near by. The movie business was not the only one making money from the picture, however. Stores selling Jedi toys, books and T shirts were also busy. "Return of the Jedi items are flying out of here," said Marian Every, manager of an F.A.O. Schwarz toy store in Washington. Pepperidge Farm reported brisk sales of Jedi cookies: chocolate...
...served as best man at the Lennon-Ono wedding and rated a mention in Lennon's rocking celebration of that event, The Ballad of John and Yoko. Throughout The Love You Make, Brown studiously keeps himself in the background, while the Beatles are pushed forward into the glare of revisionist celebrity. The book is like a police lineup lit by limelight...