Word: select
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Dutch electronics firm Philips and the American entertainment company MCA, and LaserDisc, a product of the Japanese electronics firm Pioneer. Both use playback machines that read pictures and sound from a metallic record via a laser beam that never physically touches the platter. With LaserDisc the viewer can select which of the up to 54,000 frames on the record he wants to see by pushing buttons on a keyboard; each frame has its own number. For instance, on a disc that contains images of art masterpieces, a viewer could jump from a picture of Rembrandt's Self-Portrait...
...archive flourished with the rise of photojournalism and the launching of magazines like LIFE and Look during the 1930s. "Unlike Europeans, Americans are insatiable for their own history visually," says Bettmann. "They were discovering themselves in these photos." One of his first big tasks was to select 300 pictures for an editor planning a world history. Bettmann delivered in three weeks, from prehistoric times through World...
...debut might not have been so smashing an event without a young husband-and-wife fashion design team who have established a veddy select salon in Mayfair. David Emanuel, 28, and Elizabeth, 27, have made clothes for Lady Diana before and will make her wedding gown. They, and she, both obviously like the young, with-it look that she projects. Says David Emanuel: "Lady Diana is fantastic looking and will look magnificent in a wedding dress. She is young, fresh and lovely, and the dress should emphasize all that. We want to make her look like a fairy princess...
...West Point, Haig failed to make the varsity football team but played intramural football as a quarterback who, old friends recall, tended to select plays in which he ran the ball himself. He continued to play football on a Pacific League team as a young infantry officer serving postwar occupation duty in Japan. Patricia Fox, daughter of a general who was a senior aide to General MacArthur, watched one game in which Haig pulled off a series of dazzling runs. She remarked to a friend: "He's like a Greek god." They met and married. Haig soon after...
...said that "to win an election, we need organization, issues and candidates. We have the organization, but we can no longer stand on the sidelines while others formulate the issues and select the candidates...