Word: floodlights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After holding court in his dressing room, Pavarotti pressed into the crowded corridor followed by the members of a documentary-film crew, one of whom held a white umbrella aloft to diffuse a floodlight. As the tenor made ins progress toward the exit under the effulgent parasol, bestowing more blessings and kisses, breaking into nimble dance steps and mugging for the camera, he looked like a cross between an Oriental potentate and the late Zero Mostel. Before heading off in his Rolls-Royce, he rated his performance that night: "8.5 on a scale of ten, and, remember, I never give...
...that held the system in the labs was the film's slow reaction to light. Polaroid's scientists, however, found a way to speed it up to an acceptable ASA (American Standards Association) rating of 40, adequate for moviemaking outdoors by daylight or indoors with a small floodlight. Land wants to market Polavision with sound, and the film shown at last week's meeting had an unused magnetic sound track, but Land is not satisfied with the quality...
...rifles. They march in quick 30-inch steps, keeping their feet within two inches of the ground in a motion they call "slide and glide." Momentarily, the parade deck is cast into darkness. High on the ramparts of the east barracks, seven red-coated trumpeters, bathed in a floodlight, blow a fanfare. The musicians of the drum and bugle corps take charge-50 horns and drums sounding and pounding out a rhythm that fills the quadrangle and overflows down I Street. It sets the crowd to humming, singing and banging feet...