Word: viewer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Even so, his sober formalism helps maintain the viewer's bearings in the midst of a busy, vertiginous film. He is, on balance, right to let material as original as this speak in its own peculiar and arresting accents. -By Richard Schickel
...nobility that elicits compassion along with admiration for the actor's work. Jacqueine Bisset and Anthony Andrews tread similarly delicate lines as Yvonne and Hugh, trying to cling to their dreams despite the rude, awakening noises of Geoffrey's self-destruction. With Finney, they slowly draw the viewer across time and distance into an unlikely involvement with highly unlikely people. Some of the rich allusiveness of Lowry's prose may lave been lost in the process, but much has been gained in the way of clear meaning and emotional immediacy...
Always alert to what is new, Wurman continues to think originally about how each book should be done. The new guide to New Orleans was published this year in time for the fair. A TV Viewer's Guide to the Los Angeles Olympic Games sold 4 million before it even went to press; Portuguese-and Japanese-language editions of the TV Olympic guide are also available. In the fall a Tokyo sourcebook will be bilingual...
...Visual and Environmental Studies professors probably got a big shock when they got to the last four minutes of Eames Demetrios's 70-minute thesis film. After 66 minutes of what viewers called outstanding technical work, the movie shifts to a four-minute scene of two people having sex--in absolute silence and with an unmoving camera. Audiences that saw it reacted with shock and silence. "There was nothing erotic about it at all," said one viewer. "It was shocking, and its message seemed to be that sex is meaningless. It was part of an entire view of life...
...blast and screens grow larger, the television industry has plans for still more features. By next year, such companies as GE, Sony and Zenith will be selling so-called digital TVs. These revolutionary devices contain microcomputers that translate conventional, wavelike TV signals into visual and audio information that the viewer can fine-tune on the screen. On some models, the user will be able to zoom in on Liberace's diamond rings, for example, or freeze Pete Rose in mid-swat. Digital technology can also increase picture clarity up to 100% and would make the images on home...