Word: screens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With its huge vacant lots and denuded downtown, modern Managua resembles a blank screen onto which outsiders can project their most wishful fears or fantasies...
...still largely confined to male homosexuals, bisexuals and intravenous drug users. Although only 683 of the nation's current total of 32,825 AIDS cases resulted from tainted blood transfusions, the CDC estimates that as many as 12,000 of the 34 million who received blood before it was screened may have been infected. The CDC and the American Red Cross recommended that physicians consider offering AIDS tests to some of the 9 million individuals still living who received transfusions between 1978 and April 1985, when health officials began to screen all donated blood for infection...
...Hormones (1977) spend six years writing a biography of Jacqueline Susann, author of the definitive '60s trash trinity, Valley of the Dolls, The Love Machine and Once Is Not Enough? Perhaps it was Susann's unique amalgam of poignancy and chutzpah. Her pores were too big to pass a screen test, she could not sing or dance, she was too short to be a model and, after 25 years of trying, she was nowhere as an actress. She drank heavily and was addicted to pills, and her autistic son had to be institutionalized. When cancer struck, she made a pact...
...about much. The mystery plots are slight and derivative: so many bogus suicides and murders have been staged that the show could be subtitled "101 Ways to Remake Vertigo." But Shepherd, as the straitlaced ice queen, and Willis, as the wisecracking clod-with-a- heart-of-gold, are a screen team to treasure. Despite some straining this season, the writers have managed to deepen and develop their relationship without losing the comic fizz. And no other series takes more chances. The actors frequently step out of character for asides to the camera, and the show may break completely from format...
...CLASS option -- Identa Call -- can save lives. When equipped with this feature, a phone displays the caller's number on a small screen. In Atlantic City, N.J., employees at the Bally's Casino Hotel came to the aid of a heart- attack victim after the feature was programmed into the hotel's internal phone system last November. The guest had placed a desperate call to the front desk but could not stay on the phone long enough to give a name or room number...