Word: screening
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Houston, cheering and applauding flight controllers joyously lit up their customary cigars as a heartfelt message flashed on a big screen: WELCOME BACK. A few minutes later, NASA's Tom Paine arrived with greetings from President Nixon ("Wonderful team. A job well done"), who also smoked a splashdown cigar in Washington. An especially apt comment came from J. Leonard Swigert, the astronaut's father. Sipping champagne with reporters in his Denver home, the 67-year-old doctor said: "It was a wonderful beginning and a beautiful landing. But I wouldn't give you two hoots for the interim...
...third of the Metropolitan Museum's monumental exhibitions in honor of its hundredth anniversary, 19th-Century America. comes prepared to outdo the previous exhibitions in claborate display, quantity and splendour. With the bravura of technicolor and wide screen, the museum puts hundreds of paintings and sculptures among a setting of period furniture and decorative art with craftsmanship and detail stripped from design today...
Although its happy theme was particularly inappropriate after last week's disaster in downtown Osaka (see THE WORLD), the Japanese Gas Association's pavilion has been a favorite of the crowds. In addition to its collection of amusing works by Joan Miro, it has a continuous screen showing of skits by a Japanese comedy team called the Crazy Cats. In Japan's highly popular Steel Pavilion, 1,300 loudspeakers emit a cacophonic music. Visitors are also transfixed by the mechanized Noguchi fountains in the Pond of Dreams, especially by Comet, which rises...
...Producer Don Mitchell and his novelist wife Gwen Davis (The Pretenders) was Shirley MacLaine. She had spurned an Academy invitation this year to be a "Friend of Oscar" (award presenter). "People come to these parties," she explained, "to talk back to the myth." Lee Marvin, a 20-year screen veteran who has sat through the official Oscar event only once, the year he won ("Do you go for any other reason?"), was also there. "I'm enjoying myself this year," he said. "Any time they give you an award, you pay for it, baby. You sweat...
...takes our eye to invariably dull and non-descriptive images, and then insists that these are indeed what's important about a number. The Who are one of the greatest stage acts, but Roger Daltry in close-up just doesn't carry their sets- especially, when Wadleigh splits the screen in three parts and gives us, yes, three simultaneous close...