visual fix

There tend to be two types of exhibition: those you breeze through and those you linger over (it's not always a case of how interesting they are - some are designed as a quick visual fix).

The dispersants were an abomination, decided in haste as a quick visual fix. No quips, bumper stickers, sound bites, or YouTube clips can explain how complicated the destruction is, how toxic changes can bring the delicate Gulf biosystem to its knees.

It would have meant flying heavily loaded bombers over the Alps, heading north for hundreds of miles over hostile countryside, avoiding anti-aircraft fire, possibly confronting German fighter planes and then hoping to get a visual fix on the target, dropping the bombs and returning on the same hazardous route to Italy.

Even when the visual fix are at full tilt, it's always clear--unlike in a Tsui Hark movie--what's going on, thanks to comprehensible editing.

While their physical proportions encouraged the viewer to feel securely anchored within the surroundings, the blurred quality of their surfaces made it impossible to get a visual fix on them.

Camera (color), Yorgos Arvanitis; editor, Takis Yannopoulos; music, Stamatis Spanoudakis; production designer, Dimitris Katsikis; costume designers, Damianos Zarifis, Eva Nathena; sound (Dolby Digital), Nikos Papadimitrioiu; choreography, Mary Tsouti; visual fix, Alain Le Roi, Jerome Fournier; assistant director, Dmitris Birbilis.

Camera (color), Peter Streitman; editor, Christopher Seguine; music, David Davidson; art director, Steve Lawrence; special makeup f/x, Atlantic West Effects; visual fix, Al Magliochetti; makeup and hair, Cesha Ventre; sound, Daniel Bijan, Mark Setrakian.

9 in an annual contest to land the three coveted best visual fix Oscar nomination spots.