Word: film
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Ovshinsky also has been working on new materials that could replace, among other things, the silicon cells used to generate solar power, the electronic chips in computer and calculator memories and the light-sensitive chemicals in camera film. If looked at under a powerful microscope, a silicon crystal shows perfectly arranged patterns of atoms. Ovshinsky is working with "ovonic" materials that have disordered or amorphous atoms. He claims that if perfected, these substitute materials could serve just as well and would be much cheaper to make...
...cash to spur development and to buy licensing rights to any end results. IBM and Burroughs bought into new ways of storing information on ovonic memory chips. Eastman Kodak, West Germany's Agfa and Japan's Asahi paid to participate in ECD's work toward a film that might be made without silver...
Following a legend, conceded Composer John T. Williams last week, "will be very difficult." Still he seems a logical choice to take the baton of the late Arthur Fiedler as conductor of the Boston Pops. A month short of his 48th birthday, Williams has written more than 50 film scores, and won Oscars for three (Fiddler on the Roof, Jaws and Star Wars). The new leader will meet his musicians at a Boston rehearsal next week, then conduct his first concert at Carnegie Hall. The parent Boston Symphony Orchestra, which depended on Fiedler's prodigious performances to keep...
...that enable a man or woman to seize and hold the rapt attention of a multitude." His current choices: British Actor Ralph Richardson; Czech-born British Playwright Tom Stoppard; Johnny Carson, board chairman of the American talk show; Comedian and Movie Producer Mel Brooks; and Louise Brooks (no relation), film beauty and sex symbol of the 1920s...
...Atlantic. He should. In addition to many friends on the London stage, he has connections in New York and Los Angeles, where he has lived for the past two years. He is one of the few journalists who actually keep a daily journal, which he employs here as a film director might use jump cuts. He has the panache to handle the first person singular, although the effect can be cloying when he immodestly quotes himself: "Above all, there was the voice [Sir Ralph Richardson's], which I once described as 'something between bland and grandiose: blandiose, perhaps...