Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...neighborhood to plushier headquarters on Hollywood's Sunset Strip, later moved on to swanky Harold Way. Some of Hollywood's shiniest names became her steady customers. Brenda felt so secure that she even took a quarter-page ad in a film directory published by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; it was a nice refined ad -just a couple of pictures of her, her name and phone number...
White Worms. One instrument, the spectroheliograph, takes pictures of the sun in the light that comes from single elements, such as hydrogen or calcium. The instrument has recently been improved to the point where it can take motion pictures (spectroheliokinemato-grams) which show the sun covered with patches, streaks and mottlings, most of them in motion. The pattern of the mottled background often changes completely in 15 minutes. "Motion pictures of the surface," says Dr. Menzel, "present a sort of 'crawly' appearance-like white worms in a pile of carrion...
...movie struck, and its residents imitate and envy the stars of the screen- though members of "downtown" society and the rich of Pasadena enjoy bristling at them and Los Angeles society pages go out of their way to avoid printing a motion-picture person's name. It is a city full of people from somewhere else and it still has little sense of tradition or of unity...
...days after the 1948 Oscar awards by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences...
...played the marlin with back motion, changing his hand from rod to reel, until his kidney harness broke. The other boys tried a shoulder harness on him, but that was no good. Said Louis: "My arm was sore, my back was sore, my seat was sore. They poured water on me and on the reel and tried different shoulder straps until I bled in four places. I hate to give up a pole, but I finally had to give it to John...