Now, to the consternation of politicians, viewers and especially advertisers, this magnificent medium is fragmenting.
And yet for fans of the magnificent medium that was 1940s Technicolor the "Phantom" disc is a thrill, offering a vivid but not artificially enhanced representation of the astonishing range of tones produced by the process, which required the exposure of three separate strips of film.
Nevertheless, "By Brakhage: An Anthology" is unquestionably one of the landmark releases in the medium, a magnificent tool -- for the average audience no less than the filmmaker or student.
Herald Tribune (Howard Barnes): A young man named Orson Welles has shaken the medium wide-awake with his magnificent film, "Citizen Kane".
Served with three magnificent sauces – jerk ketchup (mild), banana pepper (medium, amazing), papaya (hot) – it is sloppy, spicy, tender, and perfectly seasoned.
Ryan Harris (22 and 13, 3-36 and 5-25) A magnificent display of the art of fast-medium bowling on a pitch that gave him just enough help to trouble all the batsmen, all the time.
"A puppet has a magnificent spiritual force," he said recently of his chosen medium.
Sri Lanka scarcely missed a thing, consistently hit the stumps from medium and even long range, and Udana held a magnificent low return catch to get rid of Clarke.
Within a few minutes, he had struck New Zealand's star spinner, Daniel Vettori, for a magnificent six, and there was a further spectacular blow from medium-pacer Jacob Oram as the contest came to a climax.
Nolde sails through the show's big second gallery, working in nearly every print medium — his three lithographs of a fashionable couple presage Pop Art — with magnificent results.
It seems that a beautiful young American medium, Sophie Baker Emma Stonee), and her mother (Marcia Gay Harden) have taken up residence at the magnificent country home of the wealthy Catledge family.
