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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Each of these tracers produces only a low level of radiation and has a short "half-life" (the time in which it loses half of its remaining radioactivity). Technetium 99m, a common isotope used especially for detecting brain tumors, has one of only six hours, while fluorine 18, used in bone scans, is half decayed in less than two hours. Of greater concern are the isotopes used in laboratory tests. Among them: carbon 14, with a half-life of 5,750 years. A large hospital may conduct thousands of radioactive tests and procedures daily, including those with carbon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dump Slump | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...much energy been packed into so small a package. Rooney dances, he sings, he mugs, he dresses in drag. Even when he's offstage, he's on, and his raucous laugh can be heard from the wings. "Seldom does a person get a second chance in life," he says. "Up until Sugar Babies, Mickey Rooney was a famous has-been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Andy Hardy Comes Home | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...Linda Lavin served up hamburgers and cleared away dirty dishes. Lavin, better known as Alice when she waits on prime-time television tables at Mel's Diner, was in town to accept an award: the National Commission on Working Women found her the TV character to whom real-life blue-and pink-collar working women most relate. Does Lavin relate back? "I'm on my feet too all day, every day," she says of her shooting schedule. "We're really into Supp-hose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 29, 1979 | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...problems begin with the choice of material. Cheever's best stories are not merely chronicles of upper-middle-class life, but Kafkaesque tragedies about what happens when a rigorously ordered world starts to go mad. Instead of dramatizing tales from the two major Cheever story collections, The Enormous Radio and The Brigadier and the Golf Widow, PBS has selected trifles from The Housebreaker of Shady Hill. These are then stretched out to fill an hour each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Lost Souls | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...bank executive, who vexes his wife (Kathryn Walker) by jumping over furniture at cocktail parties. Not content to let this conceit speak for it self, Playwright Gurney supplies dialogue to explain that the hero is "surmounting the obstacles of middle age . . . [by] leaping above the paraphernalia of middle-class life." In The Five-Forty-Eight, a dance of death between a married man (Laurence Luckinbill) and his jilted lover (Mary Beth Hurt), the story's psycho logical suspense is gutted by a string of clumsy nightmare and flashback sequences. Were it not for the fine, anguished performances of Murphy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Lost Souls | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

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