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...color television sets the size of transistor radios. Using a hundred times less voltage than conventional sets, tiny battery-powered ceramic TV screens would show purer colors than conventional sets, without generating hazardous X rays. They could also be used as an animated color transparency. Placed in a light projector, they could flash large TV images against a movie screen or even a plain white wall...
...film Viva Max!, a political satire in which contemporary Mexicans recapture the Alamo, caused a stir when American Airlines chose to show it on an L.A.-Washington flight carrying Comedian and Superpatriot George Jessel. After vainly trying to persuade the crew to shut down the projector, Jessel promised to complain to the FAA and the airline president, then closed his eyes during the remainder of the movie...
...pieces of modern glass sculpture. Among the imposing welded sculpture and cast-glass figures of the main pavilion, there is an immense iron bell, which visitors are invited to toll. In Expoland (the amusement area), the Czechs are showing an improved version of Laterna Magika, the combination of multi-projector movie wall and live acting that was the hit of Montreal's Expo...
Italian Shoes. The projector again whirls, and the women settle back behind their desks to watch Decameron 69. They see two figures squirming on a bed; he removes her sweater, she fondles his fly. "Mark that," Mrs. Shriver shouts to the technician; the scene will be deleted. "Look at his testicles showing there," she calls later. "Mark that." As the film grinds on, the women exchange comments. "I can't tell which country this is because there's no dialogue," complains Mrs. Shriver. "They look like Italian shoes," says Mrs. Shecter, 55, wife of a Baltimore advertising executive...
...Times pass and we change; the urgency departs and this is called dating," Steinbeck says. "But I did thread the thing on my home projector and sat back to weather it out. Then a lean, stringy, dark-faced piece of electricity walked out on the screen, and he had me. I believed my own story again. It was fresh and happening and good...