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In the past few months, Mengele has been seen at the German club in Asunción. Risking discovery, Mengele sometimes drinks too much; one evening, he drunkenly pulled out a pistol and waved it about. Another time he chatted with a visiting West German professor. Each time someone entered...
Yes, and yes. Is it possible, however, that films are beginning to see women through a sharper lens? Or at any rate with a more interesting astigmatism? New women novelists have begun writing about women as creatures who can make noises in the forest, even if no man is there...
The sets would be closed, he explained, but there would be cameramen, technicians. "You're going to lie there like a piece of meat while they adjust the lighting. We can't use a double; the skin colors would be wrong. And some camera guy is going to run a...
The device that made this remarkable picture possible is more than a king-size copy of the familiar Polaroid camera. Occupying an otherwise empty room at the museum, the camera is in effect a room within a room, a light-tight box 3.6 meters (12 ft.) wide, 3.6 meters high...
Shooting a picture is remarkably simple. The tapestry, or any other object to be photographed, is set up exactly 3.9 meters (13 ft.) away from the focal point of the lens, that distance being double the focal length of the lens. Then the tapestry is illuminated with banks of lights...