Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chest, about .001 r. to the gonads. At the 24-in. ranges used in mass chest surveys, the dosages go as high as 2 r. to the chest, but the scatter to the gonads is scarcely increased. But fluoroscopy, in which the image is viewed instantaneously on a screen, takes longer, may entail 3 to 10 r. per minute to the chest and .1 to .4 r. per minute to the gonads...
...also made Ugetsu) has provided the picture with physical as well as spiritual beauties. It has colors that are often exquisite; and it has Machiko Kyo, the heroine of almost every important Japanese film of recent years, who is surely one of the loveliest women ever seen on the screen...
...have gone soaring with a new freedom into the wild green yonder. In The Silent World, which since its publication in 1953 has sold almost 500,000 copies in the U.S. alone, Cousteau composed a poetic primer of underwater exploration. In this film Cousteau has tried to fill the screen with the same "rapture of the great depths" that surged through his prose. Unfortunately, his hand is not so sure with a camera as it was with a pen. The Silent World is just another H2Opera...
...investigation of the tax-collecting BIR led inevitably to a probe of the tax-prosecuting U.S. Justice Department. On every television screen was the smiling face of Assistant Attorney General (in charge of tax prosecution) Theron Lamar Caudle, whose barefoot wit kept investigators in convulsions as he blandly described rascality (including his own) in government. Not until this year did Caudle get his comeuppance: along with Matt Connelly he was convicted of tax fraud conspiracy...
...other matters, however, Director LeRoy has been overly faithful to the play script. Actors march on and off the screen just as if they were making stage entrances and exits. Eileen Heckart, as the bereft mother of Patty's schoolmate, sobs through two long hysterical scenes that may have been effective theater but are merely repetitious film. And, as the horrors and corpses mount up (Patty is planning a fourth murder when the thunderbolt gets her), what had been eerie becomes ludicrous. At the film's end, LeRoy makes his final obeisance to the stage: all the characters...