Word: opticalness
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...last summer from D'Angelo, self-styled Mago di Napoli (Wizard of Naples), and pronounced the man formidabile. Tenor Beniamino Gigli went in to be lifted from his nervous depression. Italy's Queen Maria José once sought D'Angelo's aid for her "weakened optic nerves...
Three dimensional films are an optical disillusion. In their present form, the Tri-Opticon Pictures premiered in New England last week are more suited to a science classroom that a Boston theatre. Two of the five shorts are cartoons-abstractions of lines and triangles which seem to drift from the screen to an audience squinting through special gray-tinted glasses. The effect is startling and impressive for a few minutes, then with a succession of dull and technically imperfect pictures, the wondering eye becomes increasingly strained. In a film of the Black Swan ballet, where leg movements are only...
...content of the films is not worth the resulting headache. Besides the effective cartoons, there is an explanation of the "Tri-Optic technique and a tedious British travelogue. After a long and enjoyable intermission, the showing resumes with the flickering Sadler Wells ballet. Often in these latter pictures, a dimension is misplaced and the scenes appear flat and ordinary. More research and better material are necessary to change Tri-Optic films from an experiment to entertainment...
...middle of the forehead. In humans, who may be descended, like the lizards and snakes, from something very like a tuatara, this third "pineal" eye has become the pineal gland deep inside the head. The tuatara still wears his outside, complete with a lens and an optic nerve. It may see a few dim glimmers with its third...
...Yorker himself, Shawn was born on Chicago's South Side, the son of a cutlery dealer. After two years at the University of Michigan and three months as reporter on the Las Vegas (N. Mex.) Optic (present circ. 4,613), Shawn got-married, settled in Chicago and freelanced. But in New Mexico he had seen The New Yorker and had become "infatuated with it." He went to New York in 1932, planning to write a book about the magazine. Instead, he landed a job as a reporter for "Talk of the Town...