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Word: lensed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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All still-video cameras operate on the same basic principle. Light passes through a lens and strikes a flat electronic wafer called a charge-coupled device, which converts the image into electronic signals that are stored on a floppy disk in the same manner that a camcorder records the individual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Video Snaps For Grandma? | 2/20/1989 | See Source »

Not only does the brief 13-page epilogue not meet the historical standards Levine presents in the rest of the book, it leaves the reader with an uneasy feeling that the whole historical excursion has been designed to encourage you to feel greater cultural tolerance. No doubt this is a...

Author: By Noam S. Cohen, | Title: A Time When Popular Culture Included the Fine Arts | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

In the television debates, the camera was endlessly kind to Kennedy, whose charm passed through the lens and directly into the American consciousness. Nixon fared badly on the camera. It exaggerated the depth of his eye sockets, picked up the sweat on his upper lip and the shadow of his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Myth and Memory | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

"It's a rethinking and an examination of how we view the legal structure of the country, through an absolutely leftist lens," says Debbie J. Israel, a second-year student at Rutgers Law School. "It's as exclusionary in its nature and hypocritical as the right wing and establishment it...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Paying a Visit to the Crits | 10/6/1988 | See Source »

But such lapses are seldom in the compelling microcosm of village life Schiffman so skillfully brings to the screen. From the clothes of the peasants and the noblemen to the scenes of women at work in the fields, the movie succeeds in a realistic reproduction of the time, seen through...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: The Conflicting World of Medieval France | 7/15/1988 | See Source »

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