Word: statics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...process is laborious, costly and slow, and not yet adaptable to highspeed printing. Merely to pose the static picture in last week's Look took two full days of work with a one-ton, cubical camera as complicated as an electronic computer. Five additional weeks were required to engrave the photograph, print it some 7,000,000 times on a sheet-fed offset press and then pour on and properly shape the clear plastic film that covers the picture with what amounts to a collection of lenses. The plastic lenses are so arranged that the viewer's left...
Scriptwriters Waterhouse and Hall, and director John Schlesinger have more than redeemed themselves after their previous collaboration, A Kind of Loving. Despite good reviews, that was a dreadful film--pretentious, hackneyed, maudlin, static--everything that Billy Liar is not. Here they move easily between fantasy and reality, in flowing, witty sequences...
Some reviewers never stop hailing the "unobtrusive" camera, but "unobtrusive" shouldn't be confused with banal. Although it is filmed with a good sense of static composition, The Easy Life fails to exploit fully the possibilities for visual movement which could have complemented the thematic content. One gets tired of seeing what it's like to pass a car when sitting in the driver's seat...
...static-filter that he invented let Vincent re-record with good clarity everything from William Jennings Bryan's cross-of-gold speech to Big Ben tolling in the 20th century to Robert E. Peary tersely describing his 1909 conquest of the North Pole. Eeriest of all: Trumpeter Kenneth Landfrey's hair-raising bugle call for the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava in 1854. Landfrey restaged it for Edison in 1890, using the same bugle that also screeched Wellington's troops on to victory at Waterloo...
...high synthetic fiber content, which gives a carpet outstanding durability but equally outstanding shock qualities. Next comes wool, with cotton at the bottom of the shock list. A com pounding factor is the increasing prevalence of metal desks, typing tables and wall trimmings, which are brisk conductors of any static charges that anybody can scuff up. Driest days are the worst. When the humidity falls below 20%, executives view every steel-framed desk chair as a potential hot seat, and handshakes are timid...