Word: screening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...published another old photograph of Waldheim shaking hands with the Shah, whose face was blotted out by the editors with a Star of David. Read the caption: "Waldheim hand-in-hand with the executioner." The government TV station paired its pictures of Waldheim's arrival on a split screen with photos of an amputee and two dead children who the announcer said were victims of SAVAK, the Shah's secret police...
...large-scale, Administration-orchestrated anti-Iranian propaganda in the U.S. The Zionists especially are doing all they can to poison U.S. public opinion against Iran. As a result, there may be ill feelings toward Iran in the U.S. as reported. But if the facts penetrate the Zionist-imperialist propaganda screen, if we succeed in explaining the truth to the American citizenry through the mass media, then the Americans will most probably have a change of heart about us and reciprocate our amicable attitude. But we are under no illusion that the U.S. Government might change its hostile attitude...
...films. In 1933 Zanuck and United Artists Head Joseph M. Schenck formed 20th Century Pictures, which soon merged with Fox Films. He produced such Oscar-winners as The Grapes of Wrath and All About Eve and copped three coveted Thalberg Awards. After converting the studio to the wide-screen Cinemascope, Zanuck left Fox in 1956 for a spree of mediocre film making. He returned as president in 1962 to reverse Fox's declining fortunes with such hits as Patton, M*A*S*H and The Sound of Music before reluctantly retiring...
...screen fills with hundreds of colored shapes spinning like a crayola volcano dancing the twist. The Electric Horseman, starring Robert Redford and Jane Fonda, is not scheduled to start for ten minutes yet the balding accountant three seats down already has his right hand in bucket of popcorn; his other inching up his wife's sweater, his eyes aimed at the screen. The color pattern repeats itself on the black screen, revolving twice with a one and a half twist like a lasarium with hiccups. Everyone in the theater, not just the accountant, watches the screen as if something were...
Colored dots also fill the screen as the final credits roll for Being There, for which director Hal Ashby has coaxed terrific performances from Peter Sellers and Shirley MacLaine. These dots are tiny in contrast to those on the "filler" reel before Electric; they form the image of a gigantic color TV on the blink. This spectrum of static, infuriating when it appears on the 19-inch Sony in the den, seems almost beautiful, an electric Jackson Pollock or Gene Davis gone haywire on this enormous cinema canvas. The Being There audience stays until the last credit has disappeared over...