Word: snappings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TIME has also managed some noteworthy Olympic feats. In its three issues covering the action, TIME has premiered a new system for transmitting color photographs that can reduce the time between shutter snap in the Los Angeles Coliseum and finished picture in TIME'S U.S. printing plants to as little as 6¼ hours. Immediately after an important shot, the film was processed and edited, then flown twelve miles by helicopter to Torrance, Calif., where Time Inc.'s corporate manufacturing and distribution division had installed a scanner to turn the pictures into digital signals. These were beamed...
...deceptive simplicity of Neil Leifer's knockout photographs is a perfect metaphor for the beauty and meaning of the Olympic Games. To the untrained eye, Leifer seemingly had only to step up and snap off a few frames to get the shots he wanted. We know better...
...image, and deftly handling the instruments-maneuvers that require such acute eye-hand coordination that arthroscopy has been dubbed "videogame surgery"-James located a piece of cartilaginous material about 1 in. long. As the surgeon snipped the taut, rubber bandlike tissue with his scissors, there was an audible snap. The entire procedure took 40 min. Two days later Benoit was exercising on a treadmill. In Richmond, Retton checked out of the hospital the day of her operation and was back training in a Houston gym the next...
...women's world-record holder from Maine underwent arthroscopic surgery on her complaining right knee, which finally shut down completely in practice. With microscissors, the doctor snipped a tight bundle of inflamed tissue from just behind the joint on the outside of the knee. "You could hear it snap," he said. "It was like cutting a rubber band...
Turner calls a snap election...