Word: lensed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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No wonder that the camera is so kind. The eyes have always had it, and Bowie has always been as successful with a lens as a microphone. His appearance in The Man Who Fell to Earth was both a dissection of the Bowie mythology to that point and a portent...
Focusing on one family occasion after another--Christmas, the death of a son, the wedding of the widowed daughter-in-law, and the birth of two babies--Bergman's lens breaks down large group scenes into intimate individual conversations. Laced throughout magnificently decorated scenes and richly furnished rooms in the...
Thus news organizations had every reason to worry about how the Poles would handle the daunting task of accommodating 700 foreign journalists covering the visit of Pope John Paul II, a story of potent political import. As it turned out, Poland performed impressively for an Iron Curtain country. There were...
But Denis is the member of the family who has won the hearts of Private Eye readers. "We parody him," says Wells, "because he is a stock figure in English society. But the real point of the letters is not so much to expose the mad antics of Denis as...
Ultraviolet radiation has less obvious but even more pernicious effects. By altering proteins in the lens of the eye, it causes a gradual deposit of yellowish pigment. As with the tan, this pigmentation is beneficial up to a point; it helps shield the delicate retina from UV damage. But the...