Word: screensful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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As I write this election eve, the moths have gathered in front of the fluorescent screens. Newspaper editors in their city rooms all over the country are preparing the final flatulent belch to an already prolonged, parataxic monologue. Soon, I hope, the air will clear, empty prediction will withdraw to...
All in vain, for last night the Democratic Party abandoned the haze of cigar smoke for the gray glow of television. On each end of the narrow ball room, the Democrats set up ten-foot TV screens, and most of the party regulars spent the evening giued silently and domestically...
Director Lumet, cursed with a terrible script, compounds his misfortune with unimaginative photography. With one shot of a B-52 flying low over its target, Stanley Kubrick represents the conflict of a desire for victory and a fear of destruction more effectively than does all of Fail Safe. But Lument...
Another optical effect often exploited by op is the moiré pattern, familiar in the shimmer of watered silk fabrics. Fundamentally, these flashes of apparent reflection are created whenever two or more grids of parallel or periodic rulings-window screens, for example-are overlapped. When misaligned slightly, they produce ripples...
Cartoonists have had fun with the trend, showing stewardesses peddling Cracker Jacks or children being turned away from an "Adults Only" flight. But for a cost to the line of from $50 to $80 a flight, the movies earn their fare. TWA, for example, has increased its passenger business 28...