Word: motions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this novel's method as well as its theme. And though The Color of Blood may, in the end, seem lean to the point of thinness, one can almost see, as the pressure mounts toward a palpitating climax, the closing credits rise above a seamless and thoroughly gripping motion picture...
...short films, which were the first group of motion pictures ever shown to a public audience, premiered at the Indian Saloon in the basement of Paris's Grand Cafe...
...Lumieres, whose family owned a photographyfactory in Lyons, modified an earlier invention ofThomas Edison, the kinetograph, inventing a muchmore portable camera than the American inventor's.Although Edison produced motion pictures with hisunwieldy machine, he did not show them to thepublic because "he did not want to sell the goosethat lays the golden eggs," Petric said...
...packinghouse workers -- 160 victims each day -- will suffer a serious injury or illness this year. Because meat-packing employees must work swiftly with sharp knives and cleavers, severe cuts and fractures are common. So is carpal- tunnel syndrome, a painful wrist condition caused by a repetitive chopping motion that swells tendons, pinches nerves and sometimes requires corrective surgery. Many workers in IBP's Dakota City, Neb., plant "stand on treacherously slippery floors covered with animal fat," contends Lewie Anderson, vice president of the 1.3 million-member United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. But an IBP spokesman says the company...
...Huskies' leading receiver has only three catches in NU's two games, and the longest reception has gone for only 16 yards. But when the Wishbone is set in proper motion, the passing game becomes obsolete...