Word: warp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fraiman, who accused Sullivan of "trying to preserve his constituency of cheap renters," said condominium opponents "are trying to put Cambridge in a formaldehyde jar in some time warp in the past...
...Captain (now Admiral) Kirk has been kicked upstairs to dull desk duty, Mr. Spock has settled on his native Vulcan, and "Bones" McCoy has become a bearded country doctor. The Enterprise itself is in drydock. Suddenly a Starfleet monitoring station spots an immense alien "force" speeding toward earth at "warp seven" speed, making nasty noises and devouring spaceships like popcorn. Out of drydock comes the Enterprise, and Kirk is returned to its command...
Prompted by all this unexpected success, Paramount scheduled a low-budget movie several years ago. Then, when Star Wars hit, the studio returned to the project at a speed approaching warp seven. The new movie will have an expensive layering of special effects. Optics Wizard Robert Abel has been hired to give that cloud of electric whipped cream a throbbing, ominous personality. "It's so big you can't make a model of it," he hints vaguely. "It's so awesome, so powerful and has so many unique identities . . ." When the monster first appears, audiences will...
...photographs were motivated by an essentially romantic, lyrical, personal desire not merely to record experience but to describe it. In photographing an object or event, he is loyal primarily to his feelings, to his refined and vivid emotional impression of whatever his eye lands on; and, to somewhat warp and make literal a phrase of Wordsworth's, he throws over the photographed thing "a certain coloring of imagination." The hot oranges, yellow and pinks of pillows filling a couch struck by sunlight, the sharp whiteness of one boat on darkened water, the canteloupe-colored beach, and the green tinge...
...always been inspired more by the Mafia than by the Gray Ladies. Moreover, it has a recurring weakness for the kind of tunnel vision that imagines a glimpse into Plato's Retreat reveals the daydreams of the inhabitants of Texarkana. So it is useful to remember the warp of many impressions of the '70s that have gained currency. Some result from the tendency to mistake the new and exotic for the prevalent and enduring...