Word: visual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pick up the feeble echo, the receiving apparatus had to be extra sensitive. Although the transmitter shot out 4,000 watts of power, echoing back from the moon came only 9/10,000,000,000,000,000 of a watt-that was strong enough to be received clearly. On the visual "scope" the echo showed as a wiggle in a luminous blue line, and could be heard as a brief hum. It came at the right time for a 450,000-mile round trip-about 2.4 seconds after the outgoing pulse...
...tormented and finally stoned by her self-righteous neighbors, Delores Del Rio is beautiful. She has been deglamorized to the point of allowing a mole on the side of her nose to be photographed, but even in Hollywood her well-modeled face was never lovelier or more expressive. Visual beauty is the best thing about Portrait of Maria, which is the sort of picture that looks better in the lobby stills than it does on the screen. There are handsome shots of Lake Xochimilco and some well-photographed, well-directed crowd scenes. The picture's hero (Pedro Armendariz...
...dead and decaying shark. An extract of rotten shark proved even more effective. Eventually, the active substance so offensive to sharks turned out to be a chemical which people don't mind. A black dye was added to the brew, just to give the sharks a good visual scare...
...went to Paris to study art and slavishly imitated his teachers, Van Dongen and Modigliani. Back home he discovered and concentrated on Guatemalan folk themes, spearheading the racial art movement which revolutionized Latin American painting. Later he went abstract, tried to paint a kind of visual music which would be empty of pictorial meaning, but beautifully composed and rich in color harmonies. In 1937 Mérida got tired of pure abstractionism, and began combining it with vaguely recognizable shapes. Some critics now think The Big Three of Latin American art (Rivera, Orozco, Siqueiros) is really a foursome...
...past, many U.S. teachers have resisted "visual education." One difficulty is making a film which will be equally intelligible to a first-grade city kid in Manhattan and a farm boy in Opportunity, Wash. A more redoubtable objection comes from teachers who believe that films are just another devil's device to take away the personal touch in education...