Word: screen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stretched Time. The psychological tests produced other interesting, but still inconsistent results. The men's performance was unaffected in a test that demands signaling when a particular letter appears in a group of letters flashed on a screen. Another test, in which numbered arithmetical symbols must be put in correspondingly numbered spaces, produced a paradoxical result. The marijuana novices did poorly on this for as long as H hours after smoking, but the habitual users improved their ordinary performance when under pot. A similar discrepancy appeared in a test requiring the subject to keep a stylus on a moving spot...
...invented the long-playing record in 1948. His latest discovery may well touch off an even greater electronic convulsion. In Manhattan last week, he displayed the first operating model of Electronic Video Recording (EVR), a new system that transforms an ordinary TV set into a movie screen on which a viewer can play a series of films at any time he wishes as easily as he could play a phonograph record...
...even more startling breakthrough. Goldmark and his colleagues have managed to treat black-and-white film with electronic color codes so that it will reproduce full-color images. When the coded film passes through a special scanner, the colors are electronically retrieved for viewing on the TV screen. The discovery of this cheap color film is likely to stir a revolution in the motion-picture industry and may someday give every amateur the resources of color-movie photography at drugstore prices...
...been published ten years ago, Alistair MacLean's thriller might have transferred effortlessly for a smaller budget to a smaller screen. The plot is not much different from, say, Samuel Fuller's low-budget submarine picture Hell And High Water, and even the magnificence of Cinerama can't conceal the thinness of the story. The Ice Station Zebra souvenir booklet plot synopsis, these usually confined to initial statement of the premise, manages to tell everything up to the last ten minutes without appearing expensive. The souvenir booklet also pretty much gives away who the villain is, which...
...Consul, an inconceivable anguish or horripilating hangover thunderclapping about his skull and accompanied by a protective screen of demons gnattering in his ears, became aware that in the horrid event of his being observed by his neighbors, it could hardly be supposed he was just sauntering down his garden with some innocent horticultural object in view...