Word: screens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negroid race may also be a protective device. If man was first born in tropical Africa, as some anthropologists now suggest, then it is possible that his skin, whatever color it may have been to begin with, took on added pigment-again, starting with chance mutation-as a screen against harmful radiation from the sun. It is a fact that Negroes seldom have skin cancer, though its incidence is rising noticeably in the white population of the U.S. The same pigment, by filtering solar radiation, impedes synthesis of vitamin D, which prevents rickets and is manufactured from...
There is a fellow who plays the hero's faithful Indian companion in NBC's Daniel Boone TV series. On screen, he is an Oxford-educated part- Cherokee half-breed who goes by the name of Mingo. That's about all anybody needs to know about the Daniel Boone show. But Mingo-well, he's something special, even if the show is not. His showbiz handle is Ed Ames, he is the former baritone lead with the Ames
...paths of the bullets entering the body, offer a stiff-necked portrait gallery of the prisoner's-or possibly the victim's-family. Inaccurate and overwrought newspaper accounts of the murder are evoked by distorted and double-image pictures of it (one on a giant television screen). Doctors presiding at the operating table are shown poised over the body like apostles at the Last Supper. "Assassination," explains Friedensohn. "is like patricide, deicide. It provokes a religious...
...mystery, Heat of the Night won't stand up Detective Poi tier does most of his investigating off screen, and several critical links to the murder's solution are left unexplained. Apparently realizing this, Jewison has defended the picture's weakness as a melodrama by saying, in effect, that it isn't one. He suggests that the real subject matter is the relationship between Poi tier and Stinger, and that the loose construction of the mystery throws proper emphasis onto that relationship. As long as this argument wasn't devised after the picture's completion, one can assume that Jewison...
...both bird song and discarded antlers to the mysterious urge of the human mind to create. When Dugan saw the eerie anguish with which Shahn had endowed his subject, he went back to reread his poem. Shahn liked the watercolor so much that he redid it as a silk-screen print, making 50 copies. "I love doing public art," he explains. "Whenever a collector buys a painting of mine, he goes off and I never see it again...