Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...took it all?the fame, the stimulus, the occasional overload of ambition and the constant bombardment of visual problems?with a charmingly ironic humor. "How good we feel," he wrote to the exuberant Pirckheimer. "Both of us, I with my picture and you with your wisdom. When we are praised we turn up our noses and believe it all. But a nasty mocker might stand behind us and scoff at us." Happily, the future turned out otherwise...
Fellini's 14th film, like all of the maestro's visual operas, is a flamboyant search for self. This time he prowls the enchanted place of his youth, the circus, but the spectacle of childish memory is a specter to the mature man. The circus has changed or vanished, the clown acts are,diminished beyond recognition...
...hooked up with a microwave transmission system at M.I.T., with WGBH, and potentially with a larger Boston-Cambridge community antenna television system. Community events could be televised live. Visual study projects, lectures, seminars and films could be taped and transmitted...
...integral parts of the action. Giant effigies from Lenny's pain-filled mind loom and dangle suddenly into the set: Dracula, Jackie Kennedy, Little Orphan Annie, Richard Nixon. Even Hitler (in five-foot boots) and Eichmann (in his glass booth) stalk in for a turn. Some of the visual hyperbole misfires-notably an inchoate anti-church mélange with Moses and Christ turning up unfortunately as a couple of naked men in plastic bottles...
...popping claims, some ophthalmologists have found disadvantages in soft lenses. They provide less visual acuity, and they cannot correct extreme astigmatism. Because the porous plastic they are made of drinks moisture like a sponge, soft lenses are difficult to keep sterile. Wearers of Bausch & Lomb Sofenses are advised to boil them for 15 minutes each night in salt water. Table salt is not recommended because of its iodine content, nor is tap water because of a variety of impurities. Each pair of Soflenses comes with a bottle of salt tablets and an electric sterilizer that resembles a baby-bottle warmer...