Word: projectors
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...lecture lasted more than two hours, and dragged toward the end when Koch displayed the Wallace Stevens poem "Anecdote of the Jar" on an overhead projector to demonstrate some keys to reading poetry. Alarmingly, he turned Stevens' very sophisticated poem into a cartoon,delighting in the story of "this magic little jarwhich conquers Tennessee," and, while allowingthat more nuanced readings of the poem werepossible, he seemed so strongly by temperament toresist such readings that he effectively arguedagainst them. The key to enjoying this poem, heheld, lay in the music of its sounds and thesilliness of its story, and there...
...company is currently looking for "several million" dollars of venture to finance its next round of expansion, Favarola said. Among the improvements the company hopes to make are increasing the resolution, or level of detail, of the three-dimensional projector, expanding its size to at least six inches on a side and using "multicolored light sources" to generate full-color images, he said...
...choosing his own regent, and by the time he was 11 he was weathering a civil uprising. The Dalai Lama has written with typical warmth about his unworldly boyhood in the cold, dark, thousand-room Potala Palace, playing games with the palace sweepers, rigging up a hand-cranked projector on which he could watch Tarzan movies and Henry V, and clobbering his only real playmate--his immediate elder brother Lobsang Samten--serene in the knowledge that no one would readily punish a boy regarded as the incarnation of the god of compassion. Yet the dominant characteristic of his childhood...
...Murdoch took himself to Cameron's state-of-the-art screening room in Santa Monica, Calif., prepared to be dazzled. Instead, disaster struck. An electrical short shut down the projector. For a director whose films often deal with the treachery of technology, the symbolism was painfully apt. For Mechanic, it was another speed bump on the highway to hell. Murdoch left without seeing a frame of film...
First displaying a century-old studio portrait of an innocent young girl looking naively into the distance, Director of Children's Studies at Harvard Kiku R. Adatto flipped the projector to reveal a shot of a naked, waiflike Kate Moss gazing erotically into the camera while peddling Calvin Klein perfume...