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...MEDICINE (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Frank McGee reports on some of the techniques being developed to diagnose obscure diseases and to use computers in new ways in medicine. Among those interviewed: Drs. Christian Anfinsen and Edward Evarts of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Leo Tick of New York University, Dr. John C. Seed of Montefiore Center in New York City, and Dr. Jerome Lettvin of M.I.T...
Sometimes the camera holds too long. A motorcycle idles along for ninety seconds, a dull out-of-focus journey, a bum trip. In another scene six consecutive point-of-view shots reach for tedium. But the hiatus of time often catches qualities unnoticed by a tick-tock eye. A long closeup--almost a still--of Samantha's fragile face penetrates to the madonna calm and compassion she possesses. The epiphany is not just the result of Maeve Kinkead's fine acting. Hunter takes the time to look, really look--and we see. When Anastasia washes body paint off her legs...
...favored investment-committee process, he consults his advisers one by one. "These are loners, people who couldn't work together," he says. "They are cynical like I am. They don't believe what they're told. Together we open companies up to see what makes them tick...
...JONES puts a musical clinker into Broadway's Christmas stocking. Set in the golden canyons of Wall Street, the libretto manages an occasional up-tick of humor about stocks, bonds and mutual funds, but in general the proceedings are as cheery as Black Friday...
...Jimmie Lunceford unit, whose buoyant two-beat style influenced such latter-day bands as Billy May's; and one of the rare curiosities of big-band history-the 35-piece, all-reed-and-woodwind ensemble of the 1940s fronted by Shep Fields, otherwise an undistinguished leader of ricky-tick commercial groups...