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Word: lensed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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It is the habit of Director David Lew-elyn Wark Griffith to sentimentalize his sound themes, to intensify the subtlety of a straightforward situation by allowing the lens of his camera to point for long and frequent intervals at the almost im mobile face of one of his characters. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 6, 1928 | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

These moments belong mostly to Swedish Greta Garbo whose beauty infuses the picture with a cold white glow; John Gilbert as Vronsky is too frequently exposed to a highly approximate lens, he is too willing to act only with his teeth or his hair, to duplicate the excellence of his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 12, 1927 | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

Soundly and sufficiently autobiographical, the story is told in the mills. Hard-muscled, Author Walker does not care. He offers an important enigma, not a smart conundrum with the solution on the last page. Instead, at the bottom of the last page: "Dirty Reed interrupted, 'New jobs,' he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Out of the Furnace | 6/20/1927 | See Source »

"They let us approach ridiculously close. Sometimes they were too bored even to look at us, and we had to whistle to attract their attention, though often the noise of the camera would bring them out of cover, from curiosity, to join those already before the lens. In all my...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Expeditions: Jun. 6, 1927 | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

Author Deeping has all the facility which should be his after a decade of writing unpopular novels. He has not, however, added to this facility any of the qualities which make the books remembered. His people are seen through the wide end of the telescope; they are not Individuals through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Figures of Turf | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

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