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...living room. And in your living room, you drop an earring. But now you want to find it in the middle of the living room. And the way you have to do it is with all the lights out, and you can only use one eye and a small penlight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Revealing the Titanic's Secrets | 10/1/2008 | See Source »

...last film, 2002's Hero, Zhang tried something utterly different: he retold China's founding myth as an epic martial-arts saga. Hero was undeniably gorgeous?Zhang, a former cinematographer, couldn't make an ugly film if he were forced to shoot with a Super 8 and a penlight?but viewers found it curiously inert, neither as affecting as his earlier, semi-subversive work nor as kinetic as a full-blooded action film. If Zhang Yimou had sold out, as some suggested, the audience hadn't received much in return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No More Heroes | 8/2/2004 | See Source »

...Stamford, Conn. "Time could truly be made to stand still," Mili once said. "Texture could be retained despite sudden, violent movement." During his 45-year association with LIFE, the Albanian-born Mili did just that in thousands of stop-action pictures, among them one of Pablo Picasso using a penlight in his darkened studio to carve a drawing out of thin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: She Had Rhythm and Was the Top | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

...second as it leaves the nose of a fighter plane; Pitcher Carl Hubbell's arm and hand caught in the act of committing a knuckle ball; Ballerina Nora Kaye transformed into a tornado of multiple images during a pas de bourrée; Pablo Picasso holding a penlight in his darkened studio, carving a picture out of thin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Princely Prints | 2/16/1981 | See Source »

When the lock clicked, Liddy nudged the door open. He shined the penlight into the dark, revealing familiar furnishings: a washbasin and a toilet. He squatted behind the door and ran his hand along the wall. He silently counted the ceramic tiles, seven across from the right wall, four up from the floor. Liddy picked at the soft plaster until the tile came loose. Again using one of his handmade tools, he removed the tile and slipped it into his coat pocket. Liddy plunged three fingers into the vacant hollow and withdrew a small white paper slip. In the same...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Keep the Lid On | 10/19/1979 | See Source »

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