Word: threads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Instant Loading. The marks of the new, simplified camera are easy-loading, built in automated accessories and price tags around $60. In the past, fingers fumbled to thread film along sprockets and through take-up spools. To remedy the situation, Kodak two years ago brought out its line of Instamatic cameras that featured instant-loading Kodak cartridges in a new size, slightly smaller than the traditional 35 mm. Slip the cartridge into the camera and presto-you are ready to shoot. Not to be outdone, West Germany's Agfa came up with Rapid cartridges, which use the regular...
...trips seeking new customers to expand the market for aluminum-a product to which he is so dedicated that he even uses an aluminum shotgun on the skeet range. To stretch his considerable energies, he has mastered the knack of demi-catnaps, often astounds associates by picking up the thread of a conversation when they think he has dozed...
...memorize. Instead, he read the book three or four times, then ripped off the binding; "I would take those pages which gave me a jazz-for any reason-and tack them up on the wall. I ended up with perhaps 100 pages which excited me. Then I would thread my continuity between that excitement, frequently changing the general moral tone of the book, or its purpose, to fit that excitement...
...publicized proposals for negotiations leading to a U.S. withdrawal from South Viet Nam inspired an international supposition that the U.S. would actually succumb to such pressure. But President Lyndon Johnson, without saying a public word on the subject, was more determined than ever to remain in Viet Nam-and, thread by thread, to tighten the screw against the Communist aggressors...
...perhaps one more example of the public catching up with revolutionary art. But its technique of multiple exposures bridges the gap between Muybridge's galloping horses and Gjon Mili's stroboscopic studies of dancers. And even Du champ's greatest folly-dropping pieces of thread on the canvas and varnishing them where they fell-dramatized the importance that chance plays in painting, and seems an extraordinarily lucky hunch to a generation familiar with Jackson Pollock's drip paintings...