Word: screens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Teacher-in-Chief. Nor is that all. Cornell Political Scientist Clinton Rossiter once noted that the President must also serve as a national "scoutmaster, Delphic oracle, hero of the silver screen [today, that would read 'TV tube'] and father of the multitudes." In addition, says Historian Sidney Hyman, he must possess "animal energy, a physical capacity for long and sustained attention to detail, the power to endure bores," as well as "a will to decide," and a "sense of tragedy" that results when men seek to do good, but inadvertently achieve evil ends...
...said Barnard, medicine today is developing methods that offer curative treatment instead of palliation for hundreds of thousands of patients suffering a lingering death. What, asked Ubell, persuaded Barnard that no treatment short of a transplant would be effective in Washkansky's case? For answer, Barnard showed a screen-filling photograph of Washkansky's original heart, so damaged by the growth of fibrous tissue that only about one-tenth of the muscle in its main pumping chamber was working properly...
...Odessa Steps sequence in Potemkin, be considered a supreme example of classical montage. Welles confounds one's normal sense of scene and over-all geography by employing sets and backgrounds more evocative than specific, more abstract than representative. John Gielgud, as the dying King, gives his best screen performance in this revolutionary film...
Before television, millions of Americans got their first visual news of the outside world from a seat in a movie theater. The lights went down, a stirring theme song swelled, and "News of the Day" or Pathe's crowing rooster flashed on the screen. Even the grimness of today's on-the-spot TV coverage of Viet Nam had parallels in the scene of an injured Chinese baby bawling in the ruins of the Japanese-bombed railway station in Shanghai, in films of Hitler's armies marching across Europe and scenes of the fall of Corregidor. Until...
...Afraid of Virginia Woolf? showed that Director Mike Nichols, in his Hollywood debut, could make a film that was a succes d'estime, de scandale and de box office. The Graduate, his second screen effort, unfortunately shows his success depleted...