Word: screening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...begins with a narration of the status quo by Lanx (Adrian Staub), Wheeler's right-hand man. Lanx sits with his back to the audience in front of a suspended rectangular figure which is alternately a window and a movie screen during the performance. Looking out at the city, Lanx states, "All hell passes before me"--a statement which quickly becomes true for the audience...
...activity and through tainted blood in transfusions or on addicts' dirty needles. (Hepatitis A is passed along mainly through contaminated foods.) Researchers at Chiron Corp., a biotechnology firm in Emeryville, Calif., that first identified the C virus, have devised a test for the pathogen that can be used to screen the blood supply...
...LITTLE MERMAID. You could wish upon a star and not conjure up a more joyous animated movie than this graceful retelling of the Hans Christian Andersen tale. In 82 minutes, it reclaims the movie house as a dream palace and the big screen as a window into enchantment...
TONY WALTON: DESIGNING FOR STAGE AND SCREEN. Dozens of intricate models by designer Tony Walton are on view at New York City's American Museum of the Moving Image. Triple-threat Walton has an Oscar, two Tonys and an Emmy for his work in film, theater and television. Whether creating a gleaming silver-and- white Deco hotel room for Lend Me a Tenor or a ship caught in The Tempest's hurricane, Walton gives life to a world suggested by words. Through August...
Hayworth married, five times, men who were wrong for her. Her first husband, a drifter and grifter named Eddie Judson, was roughly her father's age. Although he helped turn a chubby young dancer into a screen siren, his methods were brutal; he offered her body to those in Hollywood who could advance her career. She claimed to have been happy with Welles, at least before his infidelities became too blatant. "If this was happiness," Welles told Leaming years later, "imagine what the rest of her life had been...