Word: lensed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inventor of the camera, the late Bernhard Schmidt of Germany's Hamburg-Bergedorf Observatory first described the device in 1931, but with uncooperative vagueness unusual in a scientist. U.S. astronomers-mostly amateurs-grasped Schmidt's hints, figured out how his lens, reflector and film must have been designed...
* The disk-or lens-shaped chloroplasts of most plants are capable of a remarkable movement: when light is weak, they turn toward it their flat surface; when light is strong, they present only their edges. This tends to equalize their rate of photosynthesis.
Parts of the book come as close to reproducing the actual as words and pictures can. Evans' photographs of the landlord, the tenant families, their houses and town are as direct and honest as though his camera had no lens at all. Agee heaps up verbal detail on everything...
Like most of the cinema's attempts to remake successful plays, Retirement is long on dialogue and plot, short on action. Although Cameraman George Barnes does his cinematic best to focus the story through his lens, his range is restricted mostly to devising new angles and lighting for the...
While the camera ground, Sebold maneuvered Duquesne to face the invisible lens. Duquesne picked his nose, in most un-Hollywood fashion. While he warned Sebold about carrying secret papers on his person, he gestured like an old veteran of the silent films.