Word: showings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This show is the first in a generation to restore Reni; the last one, in his native Bologna, was in 1954. To a great extent it succeeds. When the various phases of Reni's work are assembled, he comes across as a far more diverse and interesting painter than one ever expected. His precocity and rate of absorption were equally striking, and they made room for sly humor, as in a pastiche of Caravaggio he did around 1605, when he was barely 30: David with the Head of Goliath, the David sporting a raffishly theatrical feather...
...world dropped everything when they heard the startling announcement that the nuclear process at the heart of both the sun and the H- bomb could be duplicated in a test tube. But after more than a month of trying to reproduce the original experiment, most laboratories have nothing to show. -- Fusion fiascoes through the years. See SCIENCE...
...groups gain a sense of power that they do not have individually," says Elijah Anderson, professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Caught in a mob frenzy, each boy believes he is the only one hesitant to go ahead with a destructive act, and will not resist or show remorse out of fear that the others in the group will think him a coward...
...Charisse this week). But the basic idea of Disney-MGM is that the visitor is the star. Bobby-soxed employees clamor for your autograph, demand to be photographed with your family of four (who have paid about $110 for a day at the park). In the SuperStar Television show, you guest-star in ingeniously integrated scenes from I Love Lucy, Today, The Ed Sullivan Show or General Hospital. On the 90-min. Studio Tour you don a yellow slicker and become skipper of the good ship Miss Fortune, buffeted by wind and water. As a "Foley artist" in the Monster...
...Backstage Studio Tour tram passes one movie set, a propman waves jerkily, keying the tour's theme: high tech meets low comedy. A guide points to a sound stage where new Mouseketeers are taping a show: "They do their own stunts, and they do them without Annette." On monitors, TV's Huxtable clan explains how a sitcom is shot, while patriarch Cosby dresses up in various sports uniforms and shouts, "I'm goin' to Disney World!" Beatty explains set design, Lucas and two mechanical friends discuss post-production, Gibson and Herman demonstrate sound editing, Midler stars in a short comedy...