Word: screen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Director James Foley (Reckless) wants to iconize the whole pathetic crowd with his wide-screen technique. The telephoto lens sets small-town streets ashiver; dramatic lighting illuminates a face from no earthly source. The two Brads share an idyllic toke of "wacky tobaccy," gazing out at the rolling Appalachian farmland. Brad Sr. sits at the center of a Last Supper tableau of thieves, looking like Jesus looking for Judas. Every overwrought gesture, every pregnant banality, every brutal killing is elongated to impress upon us the moment's importance and sick beauty. This fetishized attention to detail produces some gorgeous picturemaking...
...beside the pilot on each F-111, went into action. They lowered the Pave Tack pods, which began sweeping the horizon first with radar and then with infrared cameras, transmitting fairly detailed pictures of the ground below to a radar-infrared scope that is like a small television screen on the aircraft's instrument panel. The whizzos knew what to look for: before taking off from England, they had thoroughly studied aerial- reconnaissance photographs of their targets. In addition, information to find and identify targets had been fed into the F-111s' computers...
...from target, with the plane at an attack altitude of less than 500 ft. and streaking along at 600 m.p.h., the whizzo sees an infrared image of his quarry on his screen and directs a pencil-thin laser beam toward it. This step, called target designation, or painting, supplies the plane's computer with the exact range to the target...
...only solution. But less extreme surgery can often help. At Atlanta's Northside Hospital, Dr. Camran Nezhat has had success with a high- tech procedure called videolaseroscopy, which employs a laparoscope rigged with a tiny video camera and a laser. The camera images, enlarged on a video screen, enable Nezhat to zero in on endometrial tissue and vaporize it with the laser. In a study of 102 previously infertile patients, Nezhat found that 60.7% were able to conceive within two years of videolaseroscopy treatment...
This story, like many others in the genre, begins because someone's curiosity has screwed up the natural order of things. In case we are not familiar with that order, four paragraphs flash across the screen a la Star Wars and inform us that the universe is a balance between GOOD and EVIL, two constituent parties which hold each other in check. Anything which musses up this cosmic tidiness must therefore be swept under the divine carpet before the universe is destroyed...