Word: motionful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...source of the problem--and of the sequence's effectiveness--lies in what is different from film. The moments which sequences show best are too brief to be approciated in the rush of the motion picture; when frozen and separated they reveal a movement that is more delicate and complex. Sequences have something to teach about film itself: how each shot can be composed to lead into the next...
...film syntax which the sequence has now adopted. Subtle choices of angle of view, depth of field, movements within the composition of each frame, use of the "subjective camera" to pick out important details-all these make up a language which comic strips were using before the development of motion pictures. That film continues to borrow and share these elements is indicated by directors liked Alfred Hitchcock, who sketches out every shot of his films in cartoon style before shooting begins, or Alain Resnais, who has admitted the influence of the comic strip Mandrake the Magician in the making...
...branch of astronomy called astrometry, which includes the measuring of tiny perturbations, or wobbles, in the paths of some stars as they move almost imperceptibly against the background of much more distant "fixed" stars. Astronomers are convinced that those periodic disturbances in what should be a smooth line of motion as the stars wheel about the center of the Milky Way Galaxy can mean only one thing: that the stars are being tugged by the gravitational attraction of planets or small companion stars orbiting around them...
Most spokesmen have also stressed Johnson's "gigantic force" and his unprecedented mastery of power mechanisms in Washington. "You knew you were in the presence of a primeval force," Kearns said. "You had to hate what the force could produce, but you remained in awe of its motion...
...case in point. Rather than make any rash decision. Mr. Eliot researched the history of the color, studied the precedents, and began a long series of consultations with alumni and faculty, which all culminated in a mass meeting in Holden Chapel in May. After lengthy argument and debate, a motion to change the color was made. It passed, The Magenta tells us, "by a large majority," although not unanimously, it seems. On May 21, The Crimson made its first appearance...