Word: screening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...system seems as bizarre as that of show biz. Sums paid the big stars appear surreal when compared with other salaries. But the trouble is, such comparisons are specious. For in reimbursing a star, whether of stage, screen or playing field, the entertainment industry is not really paying an employee so much as making a capital appropriation. It is not by chance that in show biz a popular figure is called a hot "property." The star actually is the product to be sold. That the price of such properties has soared is not surprising in a personality-craving society...
...obvious reason for rubeola's resurgence is the failure of many parents -as well as doctors-to insist on shots for youngsters. Though every state except Wyoming, Iowa and Idaho has regulations requiring measles protection, schools-the best places to screen children-do not always demand proof of vaccinations. Also, says Dr. Jean Lockhart, an official of the American Academy of Pediatrics in Evanston, Ill., if children are not inoculated early in life, they are likely to be left unprotected because they no longer see doctors as frequently. Adds Dr. Colette Rasmussen of the Cook County, Ill., public health...
Between the Lines moves between the lives of its characters, shuttling from one comic vignette to the next--but this movement, like those lives, never seems to lead anywhere. Style is substance, but both are so fragmentary that the final effect, when the credits roll on the screen, is bafflement and frustration. Silver's flair is for the short, neatly-shaped segment. From these segments, the bits and pieces of humor and pathos that comprise the film, she is unable to forge any overarching dramatic unity...
...limos, no obligatory horde of autograph hounds hanging out their tongues in anticipation of the next celebrity to step out of a chauffered car onto the theater sidewalk. Just a lot of regular folks ready and willing to sweat out the wait and shell out the four bills to screen another Jaws-type blockbuster...
...have enough time to make their dreams come true each weekend. But for the last decade, House film societies have attempted to make money by letting people live out their fantasies vicariously. The comics, western toughs, sophisticated gamblers and icily composed lovers who inhabit the silver screen enliven audiences sated with papers, computers, and endless reading lists...