Word: roped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ordinary light vibrates transversely (like shaking a rope) in all directions, but if it is passed through a Polaroid filter, it emerges with nearly all of its waves vibrating in the same direction. The two films exposed by the cameras are thrown on the same screen by two projectors. In front of one projector is a Polaroid filter that passes light with its waves vibrating, for example, vertically. In front of the other is a filter that passes light with horizontal vibrations. The viewers get glasses with lenses of Polaroid plastic. One lens passes light from the screen that...
Alcide de Gasperi has been in tight spots before. For a good part of his life he was, by hobby, a mountain climber. Once, many years ago, he slipped from a ledge in the Dolomites and twirled for 20 minutes at the end of a rope before he pulled himself to safety...
...hours snapping scenery with their cameras. In El Paso, enthusiastic Texans draped Conductor Monteux in a Mexican serape; in Tucson, a vigilante committee routed Conductor Munch out of his berth and-with assurances that it was the greatest prize within their gift- led him to a tree. slung a rope around his neck and treated him to an honorary hanging...
...fall, is quite intriguing in the circus scenes. But even in 1943, much of the plot and dialogue must have been dated, particularly the fade-out with the hero promising to await the parole of his love, a reformed jewel thief. Charles Boyer, however, is debonair on a tight-rope, though he delivers even the silliest lines with a straight face...
...rosiest accounts of life in Russia that the editors had read in many a day. Moscow's "amazingly beautiful" subway, said one wide-eyed U.P. story, combines unmatched "public service, beauty and cultural design." There, were stories about Moscow's "well-dressed" crowds and "kids skipping rope." Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker thought the stories fitted the party line so well that it ran them without doctoring a sentence...