Word: screens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson began to come back, scoring a crucial, amazing touchdown on a 51-yd. screen pass to Rufus Jones, which cut the lead...
...candid shots of life on the range aren't pretty. While postcard-stills of the sleeping town before sunrise frequently interrupt the screen, the camera focuses for the most part on relentlessly exposing the routine exhaustion of life in the pits: from the hard day's labor in the mines to the hardluck boozers in the C & W saloon. The tight angles force the audience into contact, and often an unsettling intimacy, with the heavy mundaneness of lower middle class life. One has scenes of a locker room echoing with weeping after lay-off notices, the crew trading sandwiches...
...Defense Department has since joined in, asking some scientific conferences to bar non-citizens. While no legal response has been formulated, representatives of 12 major scientific associations representing more than two million scholars recently pledged to leave scientific papers unpresented rather than screen their audiences...
...years, while many conservative Protestant denominations have railed against the evils of television, the more liberal churches have decried the dangers of censoring the home screen. But last week, perhaps in a belated response to a growing mood of protest among parishioners, the National Council of Churches joined the critics. It issued a report that declared: "The quality of life in our society is threatened by the amount, intensity and graphic persuasiveness" of violence and sexual violence on television. The prime concern: cable TV. The document was based on a two-year study by Editor James Wall of the Chicago...
...Streep in talent are rock singers Tracey Ullman and Sting, proving that the movie musical is by no means the only avenue open to today's talented musical celebrities. As Susan's unlikely bohemian sidekick Alice, Ullman provides the film with some strongly needed comic relief. Her entrance on screen is a treasure; waltzing into the office decked out in a man's pinstriped suit, she silences her employer's huffy outburst at her appearance, by remarking "Imagine what my boyfriend's boss is saying right now." Hare balances Alice's bohemianism with Susan's purified idealism--as Susan becomes...