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Word: lensed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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> Partial color blindness, a genetic defect that affects over 8,000,000 Americans, is an incurable affliction. But for those who suffer from the most common form of the disease-the inability to distinguish between reds and greens-a Waltham, Mass., optometrist named Harry Zeltzer now offers some relief. He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Jan. 1, 1973 | 1/1/1973 | See Source »

Photographers are forever going about striking their cameras into the faces of perfectly innocent people. Any exposed to such treatment has a right to fell aggressed upon, for few things are more intimidating than the pale yellow eye of a wide-angle lens examining one's flaws from three feet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Bullentyin: A December sampler | 12/19/1972 | See Source »

BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA by Eliot Porter. Dutton. $21.95. Before the lens of noted Nature Photographer Porter, the common chipping sparrow looks as powerful and dramatic as the Owl-Magician in Swan Lake. The common flicker is seized for eternity as the extraordinarily marked bird that he is-though most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Costs and Colors of Christmas | 12/4/1972 | See Source »

"My favorite thing is to go where I've never been," said Diane Arbus; in the summer of 1971, aged 48, she killed herself. Before her death she was beginning to be recognized in art circles as the photographer who had subjected the hallucinated blankness of urban life, mostly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: To Hades with Lens | 11/13/1972 | See Source »

Peerce is a cinematic version of Frank Sullivan's clichè expert. During the tree-climbing episodes, the camera peers up from a low angle, the sun making dainty little flares in the lens. During a confrontation in the drawing room of Pinny's Boston home, a clock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: School Ties | 10/2/1972 | See Source »

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