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Word: lensed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Researchers have been busy with the distinction between pain itself and a sufferer's reaction to it. Why does a Szechwan coolie grit his teeth and stifle his cries when, with no anesthetic, his leg is sawed off, while a Madison Avenue account man leaps out of his grey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Problem of Pain | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

Self-Adjusting Camera. A movie camera that automatically adjusts its lens for variations in the amount of light was announced by Bell & Howell Co. A photoelectric cell like a standard light meter controls two small electric motors (powered by tiny batteries) that adjust the lens opening to prevailing light conditions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Apr. 30, 1956 | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

Bennie went to the IBM typewriter to type the 'Merchant' script. Silverstein called WNAC-TV, which was supplying the third remote unit, the one to be used for Eliot. He wanted to arrange details for the cameras. "Which of you men should we give the Zoomar lens to? Which one...

Author: By Andrew W. Bingham, | Title: A Television Show Comes to Harvard | 3/24/1956 | See Source »

It seems a sad commentary upon moviegoers that although the critics of the 40's raved, the public did not flock to the film. Perhaps the film was fascinating rather than entertaining. But if Welles did not leave a great impression with the public, he left the movie world an...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: Citizen Kane | 2/15/1956 | See Source »

The Man With the Golden Arm is a grim indictment: of narcotics, of the subhuman "men" who sell it, and of the slums and poverty which breed the addicts. It is not a pleasant film, for director Otto Preminger has ground the lens of his camera in the dirt of...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacker, | Title: The Man with the Golden Arm | 2/10/1956 | See Source »

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