Word: kramer
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...side. In order to produce the high frequency signals needed to create a video image, the disks have to spin up to 1,500 revolutions per minute; at that speed a needle whips through them too fast. The Philips system, developed by Video Research Chief Hajo Meyer, Dr. Piet Kramer and their 25-person team, uses a helium-neon laser beam instead of a needle. And instead of grooves, Philips' shiny aluminum disks have millions of microscopic "pits" that produce variations in the intensity of the laser beam's reflection as the disk spins. A photodetector translates...
...MARILYN KRAMER...
This morning the Harvard tennis team packs up its "Jack Kramer's" and a couple packs of coffee-flavored "nodozmints" and slides down to New Haven to play around with a bunch of rather untalented Bulldogs...
...Stanley Kramer's R.P.M. * (Revolutions Per Minute) was Segal's next screenplay, and it met sudden death at the hands of critics and public alike. In spite of its resounding failure. R.P.M * is a script Segal is proud of. "It has more intellectual content than anything else I've ever written for the screen." It was about a professor caught in a crisis of values. It was, he says, loosely based on Harvard. The premise: Blacks and white radicals at the quasi-mythical Hudson University occupy College Hall and the president rather than inviting the bloodshed of a police bust...
...signals only one major change in the Hollywood mentality. Where the movies once had to turn to towns like Sodom and Gomorrah for titillating and moralistic examples of vice unfettered, they now need go no further than the early days of the Third Reich. Movies as different as Stanley Kramer's Ship of Fools. Lucino Visconti's The Damned. Hal Prince's Something for Everyone and Bertolluci's The Conformist have begun to pick and prod the corpses of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy in search of moral parallels to our own, none-too-healthy times. (And, though...