Word: inners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Weather radar works by sending out pulses of radio waves which are reflected by raindrops, hailstones and other precipitation particles. Shorter waves rebound from the tiny drops of moisture of a cloud's surface. The longer wave bands penetrate clouds like X rays, show only the inner core (if any) of heavy rain or hail.- Thus, by varying wave bands and pulse lengths, the new weather radars can look at a cloud as a whole or can look deeply into it, or even through it. They can measure accurately a cloud's altitude -a matter of critical importance...
Rembrandt also inherited a hardy tradition of Dutch portrait painting. His achievement was to take the stiff, official portrait, change it into a dramatic scene, filled with inner excitement that holds the spectator's eye even today. His first great success. The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp, done when he was only 26, established him as one of the foremost painters of Amsterdam, and brought him a flood of portrait commissions from the city's wealthy burghers...
...ranked as one of the greatest nudes in Western art, not because of her classic beauty (in fact, Hendrickjke was squat and dumpy), but because of the unsparing yet loving eye Rembrandt cast on her flesh, recreating it against the rich fabric background. Result: a study of the quiet inner resignation with which Bathsheba received the message that would introduce her to King David and her destiny...
...this effort to pierce through outward appearances that brought Rembrandt to his greatest insights in works such as The Denial of St. Peter. To depict the awesome moment, Rembrandt succeeded in portraying the intense inner struggle by relentlessly focusing the servant girl's light on the proud yet suffering features of Peter. In The Bridal Couple, probably painted the year before he died at 63, Rembrandt could still return boldly to another moment of drama for every man, raise it to the level of a welling symbol of devotion, acceptance and proud communion...
Much of the praise belongs to brilliant young director Elliott Silverstein, who has taken pains with everything down to the smallest Italianate gesture of the fingers and has still preserved the overall sweep and surge of the drama's inner line...