Word: venetian
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...without having them trample each other or clutter the screen; the zoom-type lens moves from long shots to close-ups with a breathtaking rush and without loss of focus. With process shots (filmed backgrounds), Hobin can shoot scenes that look like Paris, Tokyo, the Taj Mahal or a Venetian canal...
...types of window shades are catalogued, 9,000 of them Venetian blinds...
Secretly, Groggle resents modern woman as a parasite who leads a push-button life of leisure while he slaves over a hot desk. "Actually, every laborsaving device of the past century has added to women's work ... A man invents a vacuum cleaner and ... a co-conspirator popularizes Venetian blinds, so there will be something else for the vacuum cleaner to do in a jiffy. A man turns out a simple little mechanism to make melon balls, and it's no longer comme il faut to toss a plain hunk of melon into a fruit salad...
Wolf-Ferrari based his Ruffians on a farce by 18th Century Carlo Goldoni: two prosperous Venetian merchants arrange a marriage of convenience for their children, and, being unromantic old curmudgeons, vow that the young couple shall not be allowed to meet until they reach the altar. Their wives, being romantic busybodies, vow that the youngsters shall meet anyhow, and thereby thinly hangs the opera...
...Venetian-born Composer Wolf-Ferrari fattened it out with a score that was old-fashioned in its harmonies and cadences, but always fresh, animated and agreeable. The melodies, if not memorable, were pleasing, the ensembles nicely assembled, and the orchestration throughout a model of clarity and cleverness...