Word: screening
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...solution for his anxieties something other than shooting down long-haired youths. So, needless to say, you despise him instead. I've read that in New York freaks frequently stand up at the end of the film and yell, "I'm going to kill you, Joe!" at the screen, Swell...
...FRIEND told me about a Peter Weiss play he saw in London. It was all scenes of horror from Vietnam. The audience was asked... forced to sit there and watch it happen again and again, without the interposition of a TV screen and a room with furniture. The last "scene" had a man dressed up like a magician walk out carrying a black box. He gestured expansively, like a magician, opened the box, and took out a butterfly, which he held by one wing. He did this three times, each time very slowly. So the audience might be jarred...
...illustrate the universal apprehension of patients -children and adults alike. Doctors were sometimes depicted as formidable, if not menacing figures, and a disproportionately large number were shown holding the dreaded vaccination needle. In one drawing by an eight-year-old, a doctor viewing spaghetti-like intestines on a fluoroscope screen tells his patient, "Thier is something very wrong going on inside of you." Other drawings submitted by the contestants, whose ages ranged from six to ten, included several artistically eloquent tributes to the harried H.I.P. pediatricians. One child portrayed her doctor as a benevolent and obviously wise owl. Another lovingly...
Fringe Benefit. Real security, most drivers agree, will come only when all cabs are equipped with immovable, bulletproof screens between driver and passengers (payment would be made via a tray that would slide between cabby and passenger), as well as driver control over back-seat door locks. New York's experience with the slide-open screen has not been too successful. "On a hot summer night," says a police spokesman, "what's a cabby supposed to do-drive with his window shut...
Died. Chester Morris, 69, stage and screen actor, who in 1941 established th,e role of Boston Blackie and in 36 movie sequels over the next nine years played the consummate detective with the square jaw and slicked-back hair for millions of moviegoers; of an overdose of barbiturates in his motel room in New Hope, Pa., where he was starring as Captain Queeg in The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial...