Word: scanner
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...recent Wednesday night, Eleanor Phipp spent an hour watching commercial television. Nothing unusual about that - except that Phipp, 30, was in a dark room at a south London medical center, lying inside a loudly whirring Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (FMRI) scanner that mapped her brain as video images flickered before her eyes. Brain scanners - which use radio waves and a powerful magnetic field to trace oxygenated blood to areas of neural activity - are mainly used to study or diagnose brain diseases. But Phipp's brain was being scrutinized for decidedly nonmedical reasons. Researchers were monitoring how it reacted...
...crucial part of his plan was to immediately move all of his patients down to subterranean levels, two levels below the earth's surface. It took a lot of shuffling to turn a radiology waiting room into a maternity ward, an MRI scanner space into a recovery room and a heart catheterization laboratory into a neonatal intensive care unit. Nurses there are working furiously to keep a 600 gm. baby girl alive, along with 1.2 kg. twin boys...
...before he tried to wax philosophical in “The Matrix” and “A Scanner Darkly,” Neo found something a bit closer to his reading level...
...Scanner Darkly is a live-action animated film. That is, Linklater first shot scenes with his star cast of actors - including Keanu Reeves (as Arctor/Fred), Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson and Winona Ryder - and then had artists trace over the images, adding such fantasy elements as bugs crawling over one druggie and a protean "scramble suit," worn by Fred to disguise his identity (whatever that is). At times a face is given a kind of Jell-O elasticity. Linklater first used this process, called rotoscoping, five years ago in Waking Life. It's appropriate to the subject, and is used...
...Last night's screening started 10 minutes late, because, we were told, the stars and director were delayed in traffic. When he walked onto the Debussy stage, flanked by Reeves and Downey, Linklater wanted the audience to know that Scanner was, among other things, a comedy. Yet the movie never matched the onstage raillery of Downey, who grabbed the mike and announced, "Would the person with the Peugeot please move your goddam car? You're blocking traffic on the Croisette...