Word: sheeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last spring, Gerard Philipe's nine-year-old son Olivier was dangerously ill in a Paris hospital when a photographer suddenly broke into his room, started snapping photos while the terrified child hid his head under the sheet...
...produce a hologram, light from a laser is split into two beams, one of which is directed by a mirror onto a sheet of photographic film. The other beam is used to illuminate the subject. When the laser light hits the subject, it is scattered by the irregular surface and reflected back toward the film. As a result, many of the reflected light waves are jumbled and out of phase both with each other and with the light from the undisturbed beam reflected by the mirror. When the light waves from subject and mirror are reunited at the surface...
...laser beam hits the hologram's interference pattern, it is diffracted into light waves that duplicate those that were reflected from the subject. The viewer sees the subject of the picture in three dimensions, apparently suspended behind the hologram at the same distance it was from the sheet of film...
...REPORTS (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "I.O.U. $315,000,000,000," a balance sheet on consumer debt...
Sooner or later someone is certain to puzzle out a formal definition of urban community development. Out of his garret and into the sun he'll come bandying his sheet of convoluted prose only to be greeted with a recent erasure in Webster's New Collegiate. Exactly what he'll find where urban community development once stood is hard to say -- perhaps something like "better burg breeding" or "coached community commotion" or any one of a thousand possible locutions which would shed an aura of respectability on an undertaking whose very nature suggests a lurking, sleight-of-hand presence...