![]() ![]() Looks like the phrase has some prominence as restaurant slang for when a server is totally overwhelmed by orders. immersed in details of a technical nature to the point where you've lost your audience). Dealing with technical difficulties is a neutral activity-people who deal with technical things do it all the time, and when they do it, they're not IN THE WEEDS, a phrase which implies being over your head or talking over someone else's (i.e. I love the expression IN THE WEEDS, though I don't think the clue here adequately conveys the lost-ness implied by the phrase ( 42A: Dealing with technical difficulties, say). If I really think an answer Has No Place In All Of Crosswords, I'll tell you. ![]() This is (mostly) a personal solving diary, not a rule book. It's important to say here, because people seem to get confused, that when I don't like a phrase, like ALL THE FEELS, I'm writing as an ordinary solver who has Feelings about words, phrases, etc. That expression is, as they also say online, cringe. You don't have "mixed emotions," you have very specific feelings that you could probably express if you wanted to, but no, ALL THE FEELS, which basically says Nothing but wants to be seen as adorable. ALL THE FEELS is like ADULTING, a cutesy phrase that flattens the diversity and complex reality of human experience into meme-able onlinespeak. The puzzle does a better job with the ALL THE FEELS clue ( 12D: Mixed emotions, so to speak), though in that case the answer is an expression so personally off-putting that it didn't add to my solving enjoyment at all. ![]() Whatever feeling of currency that answer might have had (and it's not exactly new anymore) is undermined by the dull, straightforward, obvious clue. Extremely literal clue on well-established slang. I dropped today's 1-Across in immediately, with no crosses in place ( 1A: Lures into a relationship by using a fictional online persona). It would be nice to meet some pleasant resistance. Not obscurity teeth or awful forced "?"-clue teeth. All I know is that I would like the puzzles to have a little more teeth than they've had of late. I wonder if there's some kind of long-term plan to lower the difficulty bar across the board, so as to make the puzzle more generally accessible. For films with wider aspect ratios (2.39:1, for example) the matting bars will appear on the top and bottom of the screen of the broadcast image, thus preserving each director's framing intent. With high-definition television now in common usage (with its standardized 16:9 (1.78:1) aspect ratio), the need to reformat 1.85:1 movies for television viewing has virtually evaporated, although television broadcasts still reformat 2.39:1 movies by means of using open matte or pan and scan. Films shot anamorphically use the entire 35 mm frame (except for the soundtrack area), so they must use pan and scan as a result. Instead, those films will employ either pan and scan or reframing using either the well-protected areas or the areas of interest. Open matte can be used with non- anamorphic films presented in 2.20:1 or 2.39:1, but it isn't used as often, mainly because it adds too much additional headroom, depending upon how well the framing was protected or if the director chooses to create a certain visual aesthetic. Open matte is a filming technique that involves matting out the top and bottom of the film frame in the movie projector (known as a soft matte) for the widescreen theatrical release and then scanning the film without a matte (at Academy ratio) for a full screen home video release. Word of the Day: OPEN MATTE ( 66A: Film technique that accommodates wide- and full-screen display). ![]()
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