Search Details

Word: screens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Today it is common, and commonly deplored, for administrations to hire champions of industry for jobs as watchdogs of those industries - the fox guarding the foxhole, essentially. But in 1968, Valenti went an audacious step further. Since his arrival in Hollywood, the liberalization of the screen had begun; American movies, long stuck in a bland adolescence, were suddenly and controversially open to "adult themes": nudity, four-letter words, explicit violence. Valenti headed off the puritan backlash. He persuaded Congress to eliminate the regulatory middle man and let Hollywood monitor its own content...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Jack Valenti Did for Hollywood | 4/27/2007 | See Source »

...classic murder tale: husband discovers wife is cheating, husband murders wife, husband walks away from trial a free man. O.J. Simpson, anyone? Director Gregory Hoblit (“NYPD Blue,” “L.A. Law”) brings his crime and courtroom expertise to the big screen with “Fracture.” Though the movie’s promotional posters (Anthony Hopkins smiling sinisterly under the words “I shot my wife”) may lead audiences to believe that the film will be filled with dramatic on-foot chases and explosions...

Author: By Victoria D. Sung, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fracture | 4/27/2007 | See Source »

...gonna buy u a drank” has never sounded so smooth), the music video too achieves success. There’s one particularly memorable image where, as T-Pain sings “I got money in the bank,” money appears on-screen, dripping with liquor. No longer are money and dranks separate considerations; in T-Pain’s world, you have money-dranks. In the ultimate display of making it big, crisp Benjis serve as Solo cups. Who wouldn’t want to attend T-Pain’s party...

Author: By Sanders I. Bernstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: POPSCREEN: T-Pain ft. Yung Joc | 4/27/2007 | See Source »

...that Q&A session and in a small roundtable discussion with reporters, the man better known as “Stone Cold” Steve Austin was not wild, not combative—nothing like his on-screen personae. Instead, he talked at length about the peace and happiness he’s found in his post-wrestling life, and spoke humbly about his hopes to begin a career in film...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Stone Cold' Looks To Future | 4/27/2007 | See Source »

While showing protein structures on a screen, Alterovitz played the compositions made when he matched up certain instruments to protein structures, creating harmonious melodies for healthy patients and atonal ones for sickly ones...

Author: By James F. Collins, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: TF Translates DNA Into Music Sequence | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

Previous | 244 | 245 | 246 | 247 | 248 | 249 | 250 | 251 | 252 | 253 | 254 | 255 | 256 | 257 | 258 | 259 | 260 | 261 | 262 | 263 | 264 | Next