Word: lensful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Alfred Hitchcock, one feels, might have pulled it off, but Director Michael Anderson fails shabbily. An instance is the simple and necessary business of withholding information. When Hitchcock wants to hide the face of a stalking murderer from the camera, he invents some reason-perhaps a half-drawn shade in...
They came to honor a tall and ponderous man whose heavy handsomeness and white-fringed head made him look much older than 56. From Canterbury's "Red" Dean, 87-year-old Hewlett Johnson, Dr. Ramsey received the gold-encrusted shepherd's crook of his office, then moved to...
When a missile plunges into ZAR's range, it will reflect radar pulses back to Kwajalein. Waiting to detect them is a 1,400 ton Luneberg lens, an assembly of foamed plastic cubes containing metal threads, which will concentrate the reflected radar energy like a magnifying glass. The lens...
A PHOTOGRAPHER on the Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) News trained his telephoto lens on Greek Shipping Magnate Aristotle Onassis' 325-ft. yacht, the Christina, hoping to get an intimate picture of the distinguished guest aboard. He got a shot of Sir Winston Churchill, wrapped in a blanket, reading a newsmagazine...
Though he also painted-somewhat in the manner of Whistler with a dash of Monet-he kept his word. In 1905 he helped Stieglitz start the Photo-Secession Galleries in New York, a rallying point for those who wanted to "secede from the notion that photography is only literal representation...