Word: seamless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...operations of secret intelligence are this novel's method as well as its theme. And though The Color of Blood may, in the end, seem lean to the point of thinness, one can almost see, as the pressure mounts toward a palpitating climax, the closing credits rise above a seamless and thoroughly gripping motion picture...
...were clad in white seamless two-piece robes. Women wore head scarves and robes that reached the ground...
...just $13 million, Executive Producer Jon Davison (Airplane!) has put together a sci-fi fantasy with sleek, high-powered drive. And Paul Verhoeven, the Dutch director (Soldier of Orange) making his Hollywood debut, has polished the look of the film until it is seamless and pretty near soulless. Hubcaps slice off a speeding car like saw-toothed Frisbees, and gruesome death is just another way of saying "That's life." No wonder the film was almost rated X for violence; it is crazy in love with the imagination of disaster. It wants to caress the special effect...
...this Strindbergian nightmare. Prascak takes into account not only the lighting's immediate effects on each scene but the resulting shadow play as well. Without such creative lighting, the dream-like quality of the play could have failed--20-second blackout sequences are no fun when you expect a seamless transition from one scene to the next...
...each week Senior Writer George Church pursues a late-evening ritual. Up and down, up and down, Church slowly paces the corridor of the Nation section in his stocking feet, puzzling out his story, drawing together elements from a welter of reportage and weaving those parts into the firm, seamless narratives that have made his writing almost legendary at TIME. Every so often on these jaunts a thoughtful grunt escapes his lips and he smiles in satisfaction. He then heads quickly back to his computer terminal to tap out the results of his stroll in paragraphs of carefully linked fact...