Word: stripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was insufficient time to build an intricately synchronized moving platform to carry the camera around the pole. Instead, Strock found a way to work with the camera's own built-in turntable rotating at a speed synchronized with the exposure of a 6-ft.½-film strip. But this turntable could only be set up at one side of the pole. And inevitably the pole was going to block one section of the battle scene as the camera rotated within the cyclorama...
...group is not indulging in some new egghead fad. Host Arthur Meier Schlesinger has always been a L'il Abner fan. Mrs. Schlesinger delights in telling of the encounter her husband once had with a flesh and blood representative of the comic strip...
...validated the statement that the struggle between the Arab and Israeli "is a conflict of right with right" and justified the Israeli right "because 4,000 years ago the narrow strip of Palestine became the cradle of their culture and religion...
...mosses and berries; the bower's sole purpose is for recreation and the entertainment of friends. The satin bower bird even paves his forecourt with shining bits of mica. But his crowning achievement is painting murals in the bower: "He collects charcoal from native hearths and, holding a strip of frayed bark in his beak for a brush, mixes the charcoal with saliva, which is forced through the sides of his bill to be spread with the piece of bark. He thus applies gesso or paint to the side walls of his bower...
...through the seemingly impenetrable Sierra, Gheerbrant needed the help of local Indians. His principle was nonviolence, his method diplomacy. Sometimes negotiations began with a bow and arrow aimed at a white man's heart and ended with Gheerbrant allowing savages to tug his beard and strip him of his possessions. But his supreme instrument of diplomacy was a Mozart symphony. Military marches left the Indians impassive; Louis Armstrong's trumpeting failed to send them; but Mozart always soothed the savage breast. "Such music." Gheerbrant writes, "did not . . . clamp down a mask of fear on [their] faces ... It opened...