Word: objects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coloring firms are similar. First an electronic scanner breaks each frame of the film into an array of 525,000 separate dots that can be stored in the computer. Then an art director reviews the first frame of a given scene and selects a specific color for every object on the screen. A computer operator, using a digital graphics tablet and an electronic palette, hand-paints the image according to the art director's instructions, much like a child filling in a paint-by-the-numbers picture. Then the computer takes over, coloring the rest of the scene...
...their society was more interested in education." According to Chester Finn, professor of education and public policy at Vanderbilt University, the upturn can also be linked to a renewed stress on the fundamentals. The knowledge measured by the SATs, he says, "is the very kind that has been the object of the so-called back-to-basics movement for the past six to eight years...
...detailed chart of the sea floor. By studying the "hits" on charts, an experienced technician can pick out possible ship ruins. "We found eleven targets in the first two days," says Harrington. His divers then went down to investigate; the fifth wreck they checked was the De Braak, the object of their hunt...
Presiding over all this is a columnist named Bailey, a highly sexed free spirit with a loud checkered sports jacket, a long green scarf and a chip on his shoulder as big as the state capitol. The plot can be described as what happens when this immovable object meets guards with billy clubs, gypsies with evil powers, women with irresistible charms and important men of crushing influence...
...generation, the horseless carriage remained an exclusive possession of the rich, an ideal object of conspicuous consumption, a perfect excuse for a dashing new wardrobe of matching goggles, cap and scarf. But in 1913 a mechanic named Henry Ford began turning out Model Ts on his newfangled assembly line. By the mid-'20s Ford was producing a car every ten seconds. Price: as low as $265. Mobility was suddenly within reach of the average family, and an egalitarian society was no longer some impossible ideal. Automobile ownership, reported Robert and Helen Lynd in Middletown, soon became "an accepted essential...