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Shtrikman and his Weizmann team soon developed a simple diamond-identifying device. It consists of a small helium-neon laser that directs a beam of light through a pinhole in a sheet of Polaroid film and onto a diamond. As the laser's uniform light waves hit the "table" (or top facet) of the gem, some of them are reflected. Others enter the diamond, circle around inside it and are refracted at varying angles. The result is a unique pattern of spots on the film that looks like a bright, star-cluttered sky; in more advanced versions...
WHEREAS RUSSELL'S PICTURES are literal and non-dramatic, those by Rosamund Purcell, also a graduate of B.U., are mysterious and taught with background. Purcell works almost exclusively with Polaroid Land materials. She is the most experimental of the four artists exhibited, using superimposed images, double exposures and unusual lighting--a woman clad in leotard and tight lying in a cone of light on a wooden floor is transformed into an unconscious astronaut hurtling through black space...
...busiest boulevard in Saigon, and exotic aromas bubbled up from the hot food stalls in front of Saigon's cathedral. Young women crowded the lobby of the Mini Rex Theater every matinee to see Brigitte Bardot in Boulevard du Rhum. Roving photographers armed with Polaroid cameras still tried to hustle a few piasters out of foreign correspondents they mistook for tourists. The piaster rate, perhaps the best war barometer in town, shot up from 2,000 to 3,900 for one U.S. dollar in four days. For a time, a hooker could be hired for less than...
...images peculiar to their cult), he had himself kicked down two flights of concrete stairs in front of an admiring throng. He has been shot, though only by a .22 in the arm, by an assistant. All these penances are recorded with great care on video tape and Polaroid film by other assistants, as the deeds of Ramachandra were recorded in the Ramayana. It was explained to me that since most cultured Americans do nothing more strenuous than a little bluefishing from a boat purchased with their last foundation grant, they prize something called "gratuitous risk," provided some other artist...
McCune, who is amiable, relaxed and a more than occasional skier, does not have much of a background as a manager despite his many years at Polaroid. An M.I.T.-trained engineer, he helped Land develop the first instant-picture camera in the 1940s. Lately his main job has been to work out the problems that still bedevil production of the SX-70, Polaroid's revolutionary instant-color camera, and have cut deeply into the company's earnings. Unlike Wyman, McCune is not the sort to chafe at Land's tight grip. He has said in the past...