Word: lensed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Big Picture. A simplified wide-screen lens for amateur photographers that increases by 50% the horizontal view of 8-and 16-mm. movie cameras has been put on sale by the Vistascope Corp. of New York. The special lens widens the camera's "eye" without any distortion. Price: $75...
The patron saint of U.S. Congressional buffoons is the junketeer who, on the occasion of a visit to the court of- the Hellenes, inspected Queen Frederika of Greece from stem to stern and raucously proclaimed her "the cutest little Queenie I ever saw." The Congressman and his antics came a...
Centuries of borrowing gave Japan a reputation as a nation of agile mimics; Japanese even coined an ugly word for themselves-sarumane (monkey-imitators)-to use in candid introspective moments. But at the core there was a quality distinctly Japanese, that took or rejected, or sometimes transformed, everything foreign, from...
Operating rooms are in pairs around a central group of instrument and scrub rooms so that a busy surgeon need lose not a minute between operations, and in certain cases can let them overlap. The old theater design is gone. Medical students no longer need to peer over each other...
BEETHOVEN AND HIS NEPHEW, by Editha Sferba and Richard Sferba (351 pp.; Pantheon; $5). The authors are concerned with the vulnerable man, not the venerable musician, and apparently are out to demonstrate, largely using Beethoven's own words against him. that the great composer was insufferable. He was slovenly...