Word: scenically
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...have a theater for a 360° screen, which he confidently expects represents the final step in evolution of the wide screen. Last week Disney gave the press a peek at it; standing on a platform in the middle of a circular theater, the viewer watched a 15-minute scenic tour of Monument Valley, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Balboa Bay, had the sensation of looking out of the same car or boat that the eleven-camera unit had worked from. The sense of motion was impressive. Said Daily Variety: "Like riding in a flying saucer...
...story on the St. Lawrence Seaway, which accompanies four pages of scenic river views in color in this week's issue, was written by Edwin Copps, senior writer in the CANADA section, who was born in Eganville, near Ottawa. Researcher for the story is another Canadian, Harriet Ben Ezra, who was born in Winnipeg. Working on the story of the actual start of the seaway was a pleasing assignment for Copps. "It made Harriet and me feel sort of patriotic," he said...
...music festival, the Venice Regatta (Sept. 4), lavish, outdoor opera at the Caracalla Baths during June, July and August. For the first time this year Italians expect thousands of visitors to journey to beautiful but primitive southern Italy, where the lack of hotels has discouraged visits to such scenic spots as Piazza Armerina, Ischia, Positano. To make sunny southern Italy more comfortable, the government has built or renovated more than 100 hotels...
Despite wrenching translations and ironfisted Spanish censorship, the show retained a surprising amount of its pace and charm. Spain's top scenic designer, Sigfredo Burman, speckled the mythical isle of Bali Ha'i with miniature lights that blink by night, put ripples in the sea, installed clouds that moved swimmingly across pink-and-azure sky. and devised ocean waters to lap seductively at the sandy shores...
...snaked down the winding, concrete Pan American Highway. From the back seat of a Cadillac limousine, a short, rotund man in khaki took in the fleeting sights: trucks piled high with sugar cane, drowsy town plazas seared to a dry-season brown, the jet air base near Maracay, and scenic Lake Valencia, a shimmering turquoise in a chartreuse valley. But most of the time Colonel Marcos Pérez Jiménez, President of Venezuela, eyed a low, sleek, two-seater Mercedes-Benz sports car that rolled along with the cavalcade...