Word: screens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SERIES OF EMOTIONAL expectorations worthy of the best screen tests, engrossing MTV styled entrances to the tune of Frankie Goes To Hollywood, pasted jackets and florescent ties, costumes fit for any Spring Garden Party, ghosts portrayed with techniques most shamelessly existed from a horror Film seen this year-yes, Brad Dalton's... whatever? is all of this, three and one-half hours of all of this. Generally well-choreographed, often amusing, absurdly comic, emotionally unencumbering, less tedious than its length suggests, it has that same cheeky appeal as Duchamp's "Mona Lisa" or a bust of George Washington with...
...Trans Am and not a Porsche for his 16th birthday. This Hamlet is hardly a great man-but a bratty boy only a child psychologist could love, for $100 an hour. What one imagines could be superlative acting seems almost pretentious, as If any five minute scene were the screen lost and hence models every emotional permutation. For all his stage presence and manifest dramatic range, Sullivan does not let us sympathize with the prince. Were one to call for a division of the House which Sullivan asks, "To be or not to be?" the outcome would be unclear...
...says the debt is at least $700,000. What next? The San Diego congregation, which rents its meeting halls, will try to keep going minus its star. Eventually Cole-Whittaker may return to the public arena to run secularized self-help workshops. She may even reappear on the TV screen, billed this time, explains her secretary, as "a non-religious person...
...Medical School, computer programs have been developed to simulate patients with a variety of diseases. With these programs, students can ask the "patient" questions or order medical tests, and plausible answers or test will results will instantly appear on the screen. By framing hypotheses and testing them in this fashion, students can eventually make a diagnosis and either have it confirmed or ask the computer where their reasoning went astray...
...reproduce the entire text. It is not yet possible to do the same for all books and articles in a library, since most of these materials do not exist in machine-readable form. In the not--too-distant future, however, computers may be able to conjure up on a screen the titles, table of contents, and indexes not only of all books in a university library but of all volumes in all participating libraries across the country and abroad...