Word: polaroiding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
DIED. THOMAS H. WYMAN, 73, head of CBS for three years; after surgery for an abdominal infection; in Boston. Wyman, a former Polaroid and Pillsbury executive who rose to the top of CBS before being ousted by founder William Paley in 1986 for allegedly suggesting that the network be sold to Coca-Cola, recently made news when he quit the Augusta National Golf Club to protest its males-only membership policy...
...wail[ed] 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.” Four television sets showed everything from the results of the New Hampshire primary to Ajax commercials, Polaroid cameras flashed and the audience was blinded with spotlights “until [their] eyes tear or shut,” according to Frankel...
...that night, residents reacted angrily to the news that Harvard had purchased a housing project on the old Polaroid site in the Cambridgeport neighborhood...
...make the most of your buying experience in the Big Easy? Have your budget in mind ahead of time so that you are looking for merchandise you know is definitely in your price range, recommends Mirror Mirror's Fowler. If you have a digital camera or a Polaroid, she adds, take pictures of antiques you are considering buying as you wander from store to store so that you can visually compare different items at the end of the day. Examine pieces carefully by opening drawers and cabinets. Look for water damage and nicks. Find out the history, age and original...
...where his mother gave birth to him. With the success of Made in Hong Kong, Little Cheung and Durian, Durian (which Toronto showed two years ago in Italian subtitles?how's that for arty?), Chan has become Hong Kong's emissary to film festivals; he seemingly cannot take a Polaroid snapshot without getting an international prize for it. His new movie fits into his gritty, emotive but not sentimental style without enriching it. It is best seen as the notebook of an observant traveler momentarily between inspirations...