Word: statics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...famed as a cameraman for such pictures as Carl Dreyer's Passion of Joan of Arc, René Glair's The Last Millionaire, Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent) keeps his camera on the move through the rooms of Cobb's cottage, and occasionally overcomes the static effect. But the picture loses sight of the fact that all the intimate details of a psychoanalysis are apt to be more interesting to the patient and the doctor than to a kibitzer...
...Direction. The omniranges are changing all that. Operating at very high frequency, they are entirely free from static. They do not send out restricted beams but can tell any plane within their range (50 miles or more, depending on altitude) in what direction it is heading in relation to the station. The pilot need not listen to wearying dots and dashes in his headset. All he has to do if he wants to fly toward the omnirange is to tune to its frequency and then watch a needle on his instrument board. When the needle is ver tical, the plane...
Variety bluntly headlined that MET OTELLO PREEM FIZZLES, and grumbled that "it was a mediocre affair" bringing out "the static quality of opera at its worst." Variety saw no TV future for opera until it was "devised specially for the medium. It will need new sets, new costumes, new staging, new makeup. And new singers. Singers who look the part as well as sing it. Otherwise-video speaking-it rates...
...York's Senator Irving M. Ives: "The defeat of the Republicans can be ascribed to . . . the inability of the 80th Congress to get together on a forward-looking, liberal program ... We are moving forward in this country. We are not static. Unless a political party recognizes that fact . . . that political party is not going to get very...
...soil scientists say that it simply is not true that land is static. Virgin soils vary widely in fertility and character, but once under cultivation they are subject to the will of modern...