Word: screen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...House, summoned the media to say he was delighted that the big hearing this Tuesday on his motion to dismiss charges of breaking House rules will be wide open and televised. This after he and his phalanx of lawyers spent ten days fighting to keep the session off the screen. The monster just would not heel. Television will likely encourage...
...much as $8,000 for a satellite dish, cordless phones and the electronic keypads or computer terminals needed for students to communicate with their long-distance teachers. That one-time outlay amounts to far less than a conventional teacher's annual salary. Like network anchors, video teachers submit to screen tests and often conduct their classes without a studio audience...
EVERYBODY'S BABY: THE RESCUE OF JESSICA MCCLURE (ABC, May 21, 9 p.m. EDT). Her Texas neighbors quarreled over the TV rights, but the story of 18-month-old Jessica's ordeal in a well was bound to reach the screen, come hell or high water. Beau Bridges and Patty Duke co-star in the docudrama...
CITIZEN WELLES by Frank Brady (Scribner's; $24.95). Anecdote and scholarship are nicely balanced in this new biography of Orson Welles, whose roller- coaster career in stage, screen and radio covered the spectrum from classics to commercials...
...Oregon decided that it would no longer pay for organ transplants for Medicaid patients, even as the legislature added $5 million to the state budget for prenatal care. Many doctors readily admit that applicants for new high-tech operations have to pass a "green screen" or "wallet biopsy" -- meaning those who can pay get first crack at the operations...