Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years of the New Deal revolution, businessmen had learned to be wary as alley cats. Even when they plied their trades unmolested, they knew that any time they carelessly stepped into the light they were apt to catch a flying epithet or get tripped into a bureaucratic deadfall. If it was not class warfare, it sometimes seemed a lot like...
...drawn for the new catalogue, have found termite species in every area of the world except the Arctic and Antarctic. The study of termites is something of a challenge, even to such a determined student as Snyder. The trouble is, most termites are blind and soft-bodied, shun light, and always conceal themselves in the earth, wood, or any other of the more than 150 different objects (ranging from toy blocks to Egyptian mummies) in which they have been discovered. Termites are fond of wood because their digestive tracts harbor a specific kind of protozoa which enables them to digest...
...Manhattan's Vat-Craft Corp. displayed a machine which uses radioactive material to dye fabrics. The fabric is first run through a dye solution containing a harmless uranium compound, then dipped into a photo-sensitizing solution. In a light radiation chamber, the color is "developed" in much the same way as a photographic film, and the pigments become an integral part of the fabric...
...ruffled lace of the lady in court; she practically seduces you in the bodkin and tights of the forester; and, then, in the chaste white of her wedding gowns, she melts you. Elizabeth Bergner, in the movie, was flighty enough for the forest scenes; but Hepburn was even more light-footed and still human too. Bergner was a haughty Rosalind; Hepburn just seemed to be in love...
Clutterbuck (by Benn W. Levy; produced by Irving L. Jacobs in association with David Merrick) is one of those "trifles light as air"-and very welcome in a theater where they are usually heavy as lead. Unlike most writers whose subject is sex and whose object is laughter, Playwright Levy (Springtime for Henry) possesses the gleaming eye of wit and the gloved hand of worldliness. Clutterbuck has the usual drawbacks of paper-thin comedy but it offers a good deal more than the usual rewards...