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The savings and loan scandal did more than bring tears to the eyes of the President's third son last week. Suddenly, through the lens of one man's life, the larger saga of an industry gone corrupt snapped into sharp resolution. The grief that crossed the fresh, Boy Scout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Neil Bush: It's A Family Affair | 7/23/1990 | See Source »

The camera captures it all: strobelights cut through the darkness and the lens focuses the haze. Women drink light beers and scream in their friends' ears; men, while eyeing the women, are sometimes caught strumming imaginary guitar chords, imitating their counterparts on stage. Through it all, the performers remain oblivious...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Night Music | 5/23/1990 | See Source »

All forms result from accumulation of aqueous humor, a fluid that is generated behind the lens and then flows to the front of the eye, bringing nourishment and washing away waste products. In a normal eye, the humor drains as it is produced, maintaining a constant ebb and flow. But...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Real Vision Thing | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

...goggles are the key to the Solido system. Taking the place of the funny cardboard-frame glasses used to watch old-style 3-D movies, the eyewear creates a stereoscopic effect by using lenses filled with liquid-crystal diodes, the same material that forms the numerals on the face of a digital wristwatch. When jolted by an electrical current, an LCD lens can instantly switch from being essentially transparent to being totally opaque -- like an efficient electronic shutter. Controlled by an infrared signal broadcast from the projection booth, the goggles' left and right lenses open and close 24 times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Grab Your Goggles, 3-D Is Back! | 4/16/1990 | See Source »

The Solido system is just the latest in a series of advances in 3-D technologies, from laser-generated holographic images to experimental helmets equipped with tiny TV screens for each eye. There are 3-D video games, 3-D still cameras and double-lens camcorders for people who want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Grab Your Goggles, 3-D Is Back! | 4/16/1990 | See Source »

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