Word: screening
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...trim every four months. For women who feel Pollyannaish with short hair, the hank at the neck lends reassurance if not beauty. And for those who want to go simian but are slightly squeamish, there is always Sassoon's new way out: the Veil, with a long thin screen of hair completely covering the face. Blinking, obviously, is a nono...
Within the screen, one viewer sees a configuration of the Virgin Mary, another a storm at sea, a third the blossoming of an exotic tropical plant. But the Kalliroscope is more than a Rorschach in flux. It is also a work of art, a study in hydrodynamics, a patented invention, a decoration, a toy-and with sales already exceeding 15,000-one of this year's most successful novelty items...
...Tora! Tora! Tora! demonstrates, the infamy was double-edged. Late in 1940, American cryptographers cracked the Japanese code and predicted war-to deaf ears. An hour before the bombing, the Japanese raiders were detected as blips on a primitive radar screen-and were dismissed by American officers as "our B-17s." As a compound tragedy of omission and commission, the events leading down to Dec. 7 could provide the grossest scenarists with a wide-screen epic. Those, apparently, are the ones 20th Century-Fox hired...
...Quiet focused on the tragic destiny of the defeated German soldier of World War I. The best of his later novels (Arch of Triumph, The Road Back, The Night in Lisbon) dealt with war-wasted human remnants moving across a charred European landscape. Remarque, whose second wife was Screen Actress Paulette Goddard, once said that "hatred is not a good medium for one's lifework"; his own medium as a writer was pity and terror, conveyed in compelling prose and an exact sense of both person and place...
...October 21, the court will screen the performance to determine whether or not it is immoral and obscene. The police arrested the nine theatre officials on counts of possessing and showing "immoral and obscene entertainment...