Word: screening
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...cartridge unit is a sort of video phonograph that converts any TV set into a home movie projector and screen. The variety of available programs should be almost endless: Olivier's Hamlet, all kinds of other films (including instant home movies), Broadway musicals, or how-to series by Arnold Palmer or Julia Child. Owners will be able to play the cartridges at any hour of the day or night and, if they have the right equipment, to replay a sequence or freeze the action in order to study Palmer's back swing or tend to a squalling baby...
Since 1957, many pediatric psychiatrists have espoused drug treatment for other learning disabilities. Anaheim's Dr. Adler is consultant for seven Orange County school districts in which he helps to screen children and to recommend treatment. He treats 2,000 children in his private practice. Not all respond to drugs as dramatically as Jeremy did, he cautions, but most of them do so much better than before that he keeps them on Ritalin or an equivalent drug throughout the school year. After about two years, Adler arbitrarily decreases the dosage during the summer vacation, hoping that new habit patterns...
...Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell were ignominiously rejected for the Supreme Court, the American Bar Association revived an old idea with new force. President Nixon might have avoided much of the trouble, it said, by letting the A.B. A.'s twelve-member Committee on the Federal Judiciary screen his nominees for the Supreme Court before he submitted their names to the Senate. After all, the committee has screened choices for lower federal courts since the Eisenhower Administration. Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson asked the committee to double-check their Supreme Court nominees as well-though usually only...
...that frozen image, exactly at the right instant. The director would have negated all the force he had coolly built up had he answered the question for us, either alternative being a catharsis that would allow us to dismiss and assimilate the work immediately. Instead he leaves on the screen the formulated proposition, the existential choice, to be or not to be a revolutionary, the ultimate opportunity and necessity for real action. (There is no safe outlet here, no wish-fulfillment fantasy-exorcism that Antonioni provides in Zabriskie Point...
...contraption which goes by the name of "interossiter." Through the ill-fitting costumes and wooden exclamations, the significant theme of machines taking on a life of their own, as did Frankenstein, drives the creaky plot forward. To make a long story short, a mysterious Alien appears on the screen of the interossiter and informs Rex that a mysterious plane will meet him at five o'clock the next morning. Sure enough, the scientist takes on the challenge and who should he meet but the girl in Vermont he once knew, but who pretends not to recognize him. It turns...