Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...introduced, the film is speeded up, creating the illusion that the fetus is thrashing about in alarm. Actually, says Hobbins, "the fetus appears to be acting in a perfectly normal fashion. It's just technical flimflam." Also misleading is the size of the ultrasound image and the doll- like model used in some scenes to represent the fetus. It gives the impression that the twelve-week-old fetus is as big as a full-term baby, when in fact it is less than 2 in. long...
...dueling duo in ABC's Moonlighting start out with a typically cute meet. Maddie Hayes is a successful TV model who is forced to sell off some business assets after her financial advisers abscond with all her cash. One of those assets, she discovers, is a detective agency run by David Addison, a TV- obsessed private eye with boundless self-confidence but few clients. She tries to help him drum up business, but they are rarely on the same wavelength. "This is always how I imagined it would be with a partner," he enthuses. "Two people working shoulder to shoulder...
Just what then can our man Gib see in Alison Bradbury (Daphne Zuniga), whose appointment book schedules all but the fluttering of her long lashes, who sees college as an ivy-adorned clearinghouse to law school. Who really cares if she really is a two-time delegate to the model U.N. in New York City...
Like the Jarvik-7, the Phoenix heart runs on compressed air from a bulky external unit. The test model was built by Cheng in his spare time with limited funds and is 25% larger than a human heart. So large, in fact, that Creighton's chest had to remain open--though swathed in protective materials --for the eleven hours the device was in place...
...Religious history books will be talking about Schuller 100 years from now," contends Religious Historian Dennis Voskuil. The question, Voskuil says, is whether he will be remembered as a theologian or a showman. Like his early model, Positive Thinker Norman Vincent Peale, Schuller combines an affirmative outlook with old-fashioned piety to assure his audiences that self-esteem and success are desirable and achievable. During an hour that sometimes resembles a celebrity talk show, Schuller speaks earnestly of the abiding desire for self-worth, of "every person's deepest need--one's spiritual hunger for glory." Schuller attempts to assuage...