Word: coloring
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1980
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Satcom II and the Comsat Intelsat IV, communications satellites some 20,000 miles above earth. Supplanting a dizzying combination of Hong Kong-bound planes, couriers and other conveyances subject to the failings of man and weather, the system is the first in publishing history equipped to beam four-color finished pages as well as black-and-white photos and text by satellite. Says Reginald Brack, who as associate publisher oversaw development of the system: "For us, it makes the jet age obsolete...
...began to eliminate its dependence on conventional transportation by sending completed pages by telephone line simultaneously to computers in our U.S. printing plants and to one in The Netherlands, where copies for Europe, the Middle East and Africa are produced. In September, TIME pioneered the satellite transmission of four-color pages. Each week, color engravings are beamed from the magazine's Manhattan production center to a Western Union transmitter in New Jersey, and from there via Westar satellite to printing plants in Chicago and Los Angeles...
...PAINTINGS--some of which contain more than 50 two-inch figures--literally ravish the eye. They are brilliant in their color, striking in their design and almost unreal in their detail. The court-commissioned artists, the catalogue tells us, fashioned their brushes from squirrel and kitten hairs. They worked for days on a single figure. The paintings are illuminated book plates; even on such a scale, they are subtler than works 30 times their size. Among the rocks and the sky hide contorted faces, tiny animals and endless innuendo. Welch, who's done work in the field for more than...
...Color-coded Doppler radar for earlier tornado warnings...
Seated at a video console, the meteorologist intently watches the splashes of color as they flash across the screen. Spotting some possibly ominous patches, he zeroes in on one of the red and yellow areas. Then, fiddling with the controls, he orders up another display, showing tiny arrows circling counterclockwise and swirling ever closer in a tightening loop. After checking the coordinates on a map superimposed on his screen, the operator telephones an alert for the threatened area to the National Weather Service: a tornado may be about to strike...