Word: polaroiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Family gatherings used to seem incomplete without a Polaroid camera. But the magic of seeing pictures 60 seconds after pushing a button faded in the early 1980s, when automatic 35-mm cameras and one-hour processing labs transformed conventional photography into a better-than-instant phenomenon. Polaroid's sales of instant cameras have fallen from 6.6 million units in 1980 to 3.8 million last year...
Another example of Harvard's ties to the corporate world is the Polaroid Corporation, which grew out of Harvard in 1930. As a Harvard student, Edwin H. Land invented a type of plastic filter that polarizes light and later founded the company...
...chiefs' convention in Utah--and decided to recruit him for the force, said Bongiorno. He said Captain Henry Greene of the Juvenile Division joined the chief in raising the robot's $17,500 price from local contributors. The East Cambridge savings Bank came through with $15,000, and the Polaroid Foundation and the Mount Auburn Veterans of Foreign Wars supplied the rest of the money...
Lynda Murphy of Andover, Mass., who brought her children to try out and to see the TV star, had brought a Polaroid camera with her to take personal pictures, but when she realized there were several people at the casting who had forgotten to bring photographs, she turned their loss into her financial gain...
...build the platonic lion out of grass. Still the lion will not come. The beast is hidden in the grass like the number in the dot test for color blindness. Rake your gaze into the grass again, staring deeply into it, and slowly the scene develops like a Polaroid picture, taking color and form. The eyes discover that they are staring straight, deeply, into the eyes of a lion -- only the eyes. And the lion is staring straight and deeply back. The eyes in the grass are yellow-black eyes, cat's eyes, emitting rays of measurement and judgment...