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The second major technique is for costume designers, production designers, prop masters, and make-up artists to take instant photographs of actors and sets at the beginning and end of each day's shooting ( once made possible by Polaroid cameras, now done with digital cameras and cell phones as well ).
* In North Towards Home, Willie Morris quotes Sir Thomas Browne's Urn Burial from memory as he walks up Park Avenue with William Styron: "' And since death must be the Lucina of life, and even Pagans could doubt, whether thus to live were to die ; since our longest sun sets at right descensions, and makes but winter arches, and therefore it cannot be long before we lie down in darkness and have our light in ashes …' At that instant I was almost clipped by a taxicab, and the driver stuck his head out and yelled, ' Aincha got eyes in that head, ya bum?
The toy gained instant popularity and other sets soon came out.
He sets up an instant messenger interview usually over yahoo.
In series filament sets, instant on was accomplished by adding only a silicon diode across the power switch to keep tube filaments lit at 50 % power ; the diode was placed such that the typical half wave rectifier of the day was reverse-biased.
* Re-roll: If the dice don't show any of the above combinations, then the banker rolls again and keeps rolling until he / she gets an instant win or an instant loss, or sets a point.
The nine sets of armor have a number of special properties and they can be put on in an instant by calling out the name of the armor and its associated Virtue.
The relativity of simultaneity results in observers who are moving relative to each other having different sets of events in their present instant.
Atomic was an instant success and Grahams 8 hour sets at Seven Fridays became known as a destination club night from Montreal to Toronto.
The Stargate device sets apart SG-1 from other science fiction shows by allowing modern-day people to travel to other planets in an instant, although scholar Dave Hipple argued that SG-1 " also deploys fiction stereotypes both to acknowledge forebears and to position itself as a deserving heir ".
Long before the Restoration spectaculars of the 17th century Lanci was designing elaborate and complicated theatre sets, using pivoted scenery, with up to three different scenes painted on boards, thus allowing the mood of the production to be altered in an instant.
Vacuum-formed bases were available to form " instant " scenic layouts and these could be purchased separately or in sets.

instant and eyes
Memory flooded him the instant he opened his eyes and the sick feeling knotted his stomach.
Susan stared at him with hurt blue eyes that gushed an instant grief ; ;
The film, which followed the life of an ordinary soldier through the eyes of journalist Ernie Pyle ( played by Burgess Meredith ), became an instant critical and commercial success.
The initial reaction should the spray be directed at the face, is the completely involuntary closing of the eyes ( sometimes described as leading to a disconcerting sensation of the eyelids " bubbling and boiling " as the chemical acts on the skin ), an instant sensation of the restriction of the airways and the general feeling of sudden and intense, searing pain about the face, nose, and throat.
Reportedly, in the instant before the gendarmerie opened fire Mesrine's eyes were described as being so shocked they seemed to be bursting from his head as he realized he was trapped.
That signal would bring more and more wretched figures streaming up from all sides, and the good Samaritan would find himself besieged, hemmed in by ragged apparitions spraying him with tubercular saliva, by children covered with oozing sores who were pushed into his path, by gesticulating stumps of arms, blinded eyes, toothless, stinking open mouths, all begging for mercy at this, the last moment of their lives, as if their end could be delayed only by instant support.
The midband only covers a small area of about 5 °– 10 ° of the visual field at any given instant, but like in most crustaceans, the eyes are mounted on stalks.
" According to Gilbert, Harris " looked down for an instant, raised his eyes up, and said, ' No, I saw them with a spiritual eye.
His forced departure made the kabaka an instant martyr in the eyes of the Baganda, whose latent separatism and anticolonial sentiments set off a storm of protest.
" At this moment ,... their lives were given up for lost ; but then, in an instant of time, God turned the wind about, which carried them from the rocks of death before their eyes.
“ For an instant Manolios ’ s heart failed him, he turned to the door-it was closed ; he looked at the three lit lamps and, under them, the icons loaded with ex-votos: Christ, red-cheeked, with carefully combed hair, was smiling ; the Virgin Mary, bending over the child was taking no interest in what was happening under her eyes.
For an instant the golden valley swam before his eyes, and the walls waved, and all about him whirled with tumult within.
" Our eyes are constantly trained Westward, and we keep the guns ready for instant use against aircraft or submarines whenever we are at sea.
That deal made Johnson an instant hero in the eyes of many Harlemites, who were impressed that a brash 27-year-old black man could actually cut deals with the Italian Mafia.
" According to Gilbert, Harris " looked down for an instant, raised his eyes up, and said, ' No, I saw them with a spiritual eye.
" At this moment ,... their lives were given up for lost ; but then, in an instant of time, God turned the wind about, which carried them from the rocks of death before their eyes.
Turner and young Zach have an instant connection which makes your eyes smile.

instant and on
From above one could only occasionally catch a glimpse of life on the floor of this green sea: a neighbor's gingham skirt flashing into sight for an instant on the path beneath her grape-arbor, or the movement of hands above a clothesline and the flutter of garments hung there, half-way down the block.
Mark's thoughts must have been keeping silent pace beside his own, climbing the same crags in dirty white sneakers, clambering out on top of the headland and coming upon the sudden glinting water at the same instant.
But just when she seemed to have sunk into some depravity of peasanthood she would disappear and come down bathed, brushed, and taking breaths of air, and even with her broken nails her hands would come to rest on a table or a leaf with a thoughtless delicacy, a grace of history, so to speak, and for an instant one saw how ferociously proud she was and adamant on certain questions of personal value.
He looked at her out of himself, she thought, as he did only for an instant at a time, the look which always surprised her even now when his uncombable hair was yellowing a little and his breath came hard through his nicotine-choked lungs, the look of the gaunt youth she had suddenly found herself staring at in the Tate Gallery on a Thursday once.
At the same instant, Elaine screamed wildly, the sound ending abruptly as Nick went off the boat and into the water on top of the frantic, struggling Poet.
At the same instant, he grabbed the loose, writhing hose with his other hand and bit down on the hard rubber mouthpiece.
Computerized sources, on the other hand, are able to calculate the right ascension and declination of the " epoch of date " to the exact instant of observation.
Consumers who have been sold on the benefits of instant results may hesitate giving the required commitment of twenty to forty private lessons.
At the instant of any observation of an object, the apparent position of the object is displaced from its true position by an amount which depends solely upon the transverse component of the velocity of the observer, with respect to the vector of the incoming beam of light ( i. e., the line actually taken by the light on its path to the observer ).
Light-time correction does not depend on the motion of the Earth – it only depends on Earth's position at the instant when the light is observed.
His argument is based on a conceptual switch from the " ensemble " of Brownian particles to the " single " Brownian particle: we can speak of the relative number of particles at a single instant just as well as of the time it takes a Brownian particle to reach a given point.
It was released on 6 January 1921 to instant success, and by 1924 had been screened in over 50 countries.
Shortly after, in 1869, Irish chemist Thomas Andrews studied the phase transition from a liquid to a gas and coined the term critical point to describe the instant at which a gas and a liquid were indistinguishable as phases, and Dutch physicist Johannes van der Waals supplied the theoretical framework which allowed the prediction of critical behavior based on measurements at much higher temperatures.
It was during the Red Terror that the Cheka, hoping to avoid the bloody aftermath of having half-dead victims writhing on the floor, developed a technique for execution known later by the German words " Nackenschuss " or " Genickschuss ", a shot to the nape of the neck, which caused minimal blood loss and instant death.
" Flash Crowd " is a 1973 English language novella by science fiction author Larry Niven, one of a series about the social consequence of inventing an instant, practically free transfer booth that could take one anywhere on Earth in milliseconds.
With the advent of the internet gossip is now widespread on an instant basis, from one place in the world to another what used to take a long time to filter through is now instant.
Since the mid-1990s the Internet has had a drastic impact on culture and commerce, including the rise of near-instant communication by electronic mail, instant messaging, Voice over Internet Protocol ( VoIP ) " phone calls ", two-way interactive video calls, and the World Wide Web with its discussion forums, blogs, social networking, and online shopping sites.
For example, suppose a free body ( one having no external forces on it ) is at rest at some instant.
In many coordinate systems, it would begin to move at the next instant, even though there are no forces on it.
* ICQ6 was launched on April 17, 2007, and offered a single communication platform that combines the various user options: instant messaging services, free SMS from ICQ to mobile, voice and video communication.
Unlike other instant messaging software or web applications, on ICQ the only permanent user info is the UIN, although it is possible to search for other users using their associated e-mail address or any other detail they have made public ( by updating it in the public profile ).

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