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Word: lensed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sir: Again Artzybasheff seems to show us to ourselves, his myopically candid-eyed character beautifully portraying the recent, rather revolting development within our ranks . . . of a whole group of souls who don't know what they've been looking at until the films come back from the drugstore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 23, 1953 | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

Besides exploiting the self-evident truths of its heroines, How to Marry stirs occasional interest with its new photographic technique. Unlike The Robe, in which historical setting limited use of the wide-lens camera, How To Marry puts CinemaScope to work in everyday surroundings. Freed from painted sets, the medium...

Author: By Harry S. Kane, | Title: How to Marry a Millionaire | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

To catch the whole football spectacle, Photographer Strock dug up a pair of half-forgotten cameras that were popular in grandfather's time: a boxlike "panoramic camera" with a swiveling lens, and a "circuit camera" turned full circle by a small, spring-driven motor. Years ago itinerant cameramen used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: BIGGER THAN EVER | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

Then something happened to Weegee. He began wearing neckties. He went arty. He started experimenting with a strange lens he had developed that put four eyes into the Mona Lisa's face, two heads on the Statue of Liberty, and considerable additions on to Marilyn Monroe's naturally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Two Billion Clicks | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

Ashcan school (gloomy photography) baby legs (short-legged tripod) butterfly (shadow beneath a subject's nose) darkroom widow (a hypo hound's wife) Dinky-Inkie (small spotlight) dynamite (strong developing fluid) high hat (low camera support for "worm's eye" pictures) lens louse (he muscles into someone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Two Billion Clicks | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

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