Word: screens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tail-Wind Fliers. With a Polaroid-backed camera set up in front of a 50-mile-range radar scanner, the scientists shot a succession of twelve-minute time exposures. As a result, the bird echoes-which normally appear as indistinct dots on the radar screen-formed easily discernible lines on the film that enabled experts to determine the approximate density and direction of bird concentrations. Meteorologists and biologists were then able to predict the location of the flock for the following few hours and warn pilots of its presence. "The predictions are based on weather and migration patterns," explains Engineer...
...closed in Australia three years later, Roy and Margaret had inadvertently established a simply smashing theatrical dynasty. It has flourished in England for three decades, but within the last year the Redgraves have been recognized on both sides of the Atlantic as the first family of stage and screen: the nearest thing to the Barrymores that the era has produced...
...long generations, American moviegoers had been staring at actors attached to profiles that looked as if Phidias had chiseled them out of vanilla ice cream and at actresses shaped like animated advertisements for the California Fruit Growers Association. In those days, movies were "vehicles" for stars whose on-screen images were doctored by diffusing lenses and light screens and with makeup that was laid on by fellows who should have belonged to the plasterers' union. Now, says Director Reisz, audiences "no longer want to look up to something different. They want stars with whom they can identify...
...cinema characters is prepotently present in Lynn and Vanessa Redgrave. They look, to begin with, like no other actresses currently facing clapper cues?and certainly not like each other. Both are tall, but Vanessa is the taller by a smidgen; at 5 ft. 10½ in., she is the skyscrapingest screen queen in filmsville. (Garbo, though her pressagent insisted that she was only 5 ft. 7, wore flat heels in Grand Hotel but still swayed high above John Barrymore, whose pressagent insisted that he stood 5 ft. 10.) For her height Vanessa is slender: her bust is small, her legs long...
Both tribes resent the ensuing romance between Rock boy and Shell girl and promptly start exorcising each other's civil rites. As in many outdoorsy pictures, the final referee is nature, played this time by an erupting volcano that pours lava all over the screen. Next morning the chastened survivors rise to found a civilization that will culminate in miniskirts and movies that mock themselves...