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...pressed against a web treated with chemicals that developed it. After drying, the negative was scanned electronically, one narrow (one-tenth of an inch) strip at a time. Because each strip was electronically divided into 17,000 horizontal lines, enough picture information could be radioed back to earth to reconstruct prints showing almost as much detail as the original...
...bore the name of Bernardo Bellotto, a nephew of Canaletto. A court painter from 1767 to 1780, he used a camera obscura to obtain perfect perspectives for his city scapes. After the destruction of Warsaw during World War II, his paintings were so accurate that they were used to reconstruct demolished monuments and buildings. The horn of the Wieliczka salt miners, made in 1534 from a bison that roamed Central Europe, celebrates a mine dating back to prehistoric times. Offered in the king's name by the mine-owner to his well-organized craft guild, its backbreaking gesture seemingly...
...Ford grant were cut off than if we'd never gotten it in the first place. It'd be difficult to have to give up the extra secretaries, the xerox machines, to think back after we've expanded so much." More importantly, it would be difficult to reconstruct the creative dialogue without the funds to keep attracting top-notch teachers...
...central figure in each case would have had the same result: an impoverishment of art through the deletion of the single commanding talent whose work outshone all others by its virtuosity and brilliance. As to what prompts Picasso to warp space, torture and distort the image of man and reconstruct the world according to his own dictates, even Picasso himself is not certain. "Painting is stronger than me," he says. "It makes me do whatever it wants...
...however, what was curious was that a number of girls would write the same "wild" answer, often a proper name. Intrigued, Cramer has begun work on "auditory Rorschach tests," in which he deletes such large segments of the taped speech that whole syllables are missing. The subject must then reconstruct entire sentences, in an ambiguous context that closely parallels a Rorschach inkblot...