Word: photoflash
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...Flashbulb 1930, as Photoflash lamps by General Electric...
...viewer's face. David with Head of Goliath, a painting of 1600 (which may, in the view of experts, be the work of a very close imitator), shows how this drama worked. The light pours over the forms of the young hero's body like a photoflash, stopping the action at its climax. Every lit shape has its rim of darkness, isolating it in deep relief. Caravaggio's best late paintings (none of which could be lent to Cleveland) rely absolutely on this tension between commonplace detail and sublime staging. Caught between the transfiguring light...
Where the Spies Are, true to formula, dares the challenge of trying to keep its tongue in James Bond's cheek. The setting is Beirut this time, and the man of the Are is David Niven, droll indeed as a middle-aged physician and reckless driver. Photoflash rings, trick fountain pens and the transistor in his lower left molar rather embarrass him. Bribed by British intelligence (running short of certified spies, understandably) with the promise of a Cord Le Baron, Niven flies off to run interference for an oil sheik whose assassination is pending. Among the double-dealers...
JAPANESE APPLIANCES will be sold in U.S. by Matsushita company, with its own dealer organization under its own name. Matsushita, top Japanese appliance maker, will introduce four transistor radio models, sell photoflash bulbs and a photoflash gun, may later also market refrigerators, washing machines and other housewares...
Smaller Strobe Light. The first self-contained electronic photoflash unit was introduced by Minneapolis-Honeywell's Heiland division. Instead of the usual bulky power unit dangling from a photographer's shoulder, the 35-oz. "Futuramic Strobonar" attaches to any camera equipped with speedlight synchronization. is powered by three size D batteries or ordinary household current. Price...