Word: visualizer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...goal of the exhibition is an attempt to give visual definitions to the stylistic terms, "Classical" and "Baroque." They hope that by exhibiting examples of various art forms they will be able to explain them with more clarity...
Consistent character is absent from the play as a whole as well. Farce, comedy, and boredom succeed each other slickly at random. Visual gags, political "humor," pseudo-Shavian epigrams, and Joe Miller favorites mingle democratically with a handful of really comic situations...
...first test is the visual test. Holding the tulip-shaped glass up to the 'light, each member carefully guages the color of the wine and tries to describe it. The most common colors are ruby, garnet, topaz, amber, or green-gold. The wine is also examined for sedimentation and described as either cloudy or clear. The viscosity is examined to determine whether the wine is syrupy, oily, or watery...
...Clearly." Twenty operations were done long enough ago to allow the vision in the repaired eye to be measured. Two of these have better than "normal" visual acuity-i.e., they can read letters at 20 feet, where normal calls for 16 feet. Five have normal acuity, and five more can read at 20 feet what normal eyes can read at 30. The other eight taper off to 20/120. The plastic lenses are focused for distant vision (20 feet to infinity); for reading or playing cards, the patients need glasses...
Cast as the girl's haughty father, who turns incongruously into a sentimental old dear, Clifton (Belvedere) Webb takes another sizable stride in his descent from actor to movie type. Elopement contains one passably good visual gag: a modern reclining chair that slowly tips its occupant upside down. But the film is so hard up for comic ideas that it has to use the same gag twice...