Word: screening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Center Screen. George Griffin films at the Carpenter Center, Friday at 8. Rom Joslin films Saturday and Sunday...
...development of the electrocardiograph, the technique uses the familiar sonar echo principle: high-frequency (and inaudible) sound waves reflected from a target reveal its characteristics. Echocardiography can, for example, measure heart-muscle thickness, detect valve abnormalities and even show an image of the heart pumping on a TV screen-all without surgery or other invasive techniques
...fill this gap that Biochemist Anthony Cerami created the orphan-diseases lab. Unlike the drug companies, the scientists could not afford to screen thousands of compounds in hopes of finding one that might work. Instead, they concentrated on combining what was already known about a disease with their own ingenuity...
Richard Dreyfuss commands top roles, top billing and top dollar in Hollywood, but it has always been hard to accept him as a top movie actor. Though his brash energy holds the screen, Dreyfuss has built most of his characters from a single emotion-an intense comic anguish. At his best-in American Graffiti, Duddy Kravitz and Close Encounters-he can be ruefully witty and vulnerable. His jittery neuroticism keeps an audience guessing whether he might really fall apart. But there is also a persistent feeling that he is hiding behind a pat routine. When Dreyfuss portrays the same boyish...
...other opportunities to embarrass himself, Henry Winkler does manage to survive Heroes-but barely. In the future he would be wise to apply the Fonz's cagey bike-riding style to his fledgling movie career: while TV actors have every right to burst out of the 21-in. screen, they are more likely to land safely if they look before they leap...