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Word: polaroiding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...notorious storm of Act III wails for an hour amidst pendulous light bulbs, harsh spotlights, rolling rocks, flickering candles, blinking headlights of a sleek Lincoln Continental, and the disturbing whine of steel cellos. Yet Sellars wants more. On comes a snake of worklights, four television sets and two Polaroid cameras with flash bulbs. Sellars uses every corner of the stage, from the turrets in the wings and the halls outside the theater to the back seat of the Lincoln. He positions his actors to eerie effect...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: A Tragedy of Excess | 2/29/1980 | See Source »

...have been looking at this vast emptiness for 15 years," he complains. "We could have had the Polaroid corporate headquarters here, but the city said 'we want something to provide blue collar jobs...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Caragianes: A Voice for Cambridgeport | 2/19/1980 | See Source »

...Polaroid would have been a start--when you begin something other things attach to it," he contends. And by the same token, "blight breeds blight...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Caragianes: A Voice for Cambridgeport | 2/19/1980 | See Source »

...picture roll of Kodachrome slides jumped from $4.40 to $5.29. The steepest increases were for graphic arts films and photo typesetting paper used by newspapers. Du Pont, a manufacturer of X-ray and industrial films, has raised its prices by as much as 80% in the past year. Polaroid boosted prices 6% earlier this month and said it was considering further increases. Polaroid is fortunate because its instant film uses less silver than other companies' conventional film products...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Pix in a Fix | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

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