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...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...
...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...
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...
...average puts the student in the bottom third of the class,” “Asian at home-American outside,” and “Jumped to her death from a Manhattan building two months later” appeared on a blue screen as “Gangster’s Paradise” blared in the background...
...even today observers in Portsmouth's Prescott Park saw a glimpse of the error screen the campaign currently faces. A modest crowd ("Oh, yeah, I've seen a lot more," said a local connoisseur) milled about while a speaker from a veterans' group tried to gin up some excitement with sheer volume: "Mah-CAIN! Mah-Cain!" he thundered. "We want McCain...