Back in the north, where I grew up, the standpipes made their appearance, one per 20 houses, but not for more than a month and (allowing for the pink effect of spectacles looking back 30 years) to an encouraging revival of friendships.
Closer to the present, Garden of the Gods can be read as a dystopian reflection of the effects of spectacle society.
The money goes right up on the screen, in the costumes, the sets, the special effects — a degree of spectacle that foreign moviemakers, with a smaller domestic market in which to recover their costs, cannot compete with.
To identify a form of binocular vision dysfunction (vertical heterophoria) in a traumatic brain injury (TBI) population and to assess the effect of individualized prismatic spectacle lenses on postconcussive symptoms.
In the present study, when asked about the comparative effect of the provided spectacles on vision, vis-à-vis the spectacles they were using before that, 81.2% of the participants stated that the provided spectacles had greatly improved their vision.
When asked about the comparative effect of the provided spectacles on vision, vis-à-vis the standard spectacles they were using before the commencement of the preliminary study, 81.2% (112/138) stated that the provided spectacles had greatly improved their vision.
In summary, effect of refractive error on spectacle coverage need to be further investigated.
A rule of the genre seems to be that, even in big-budget epics like Game of Thrones, "the range of emotional effect trumps spectacle".
With Mr. Bay in the director's chair, however, it's equally certain that the movie will take full advantage of computer-generated special effects to create the sort of spectacle that now turns period movies into science fiction by other means, making the events depicted seem utterly unreal.
One effect of this is that the spectacle overwhelms the story.
