Word: tt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...1970s, most notably Robert Altman and Martin Scorcese. The tracking shot, which Scorcese brought to a new level, is used early and often to full effect in Boogie Nights. The opening shot swoops down the street and through the doors of a topless disco, wherein it follows nightclub manager TT Rodriguez (Luis Guzman) as he meets and greets all the major players of this porn film world. A similar tracking shot of Harvey Keitel walking through the nightclub in Scorcese's "Mean Streets" comes to mind, as do the many meandering shots of such Altman ensemble films as "Nashville...
Mystical talk of energy fields spurred the Rocky Mountain Skeptics to organize protests against the University of Colorado Center for Human Caring (C.H.C.), which appears to be a hotbed of the TT movement. There therapeutic touch is thriving despite appeals by the skeptics to the university, the state board of nursing and even the Colorado legislature to justify teaching the bizarre technique. A university committee, while acknowledging "methodological flaws" in TT, recommended retaining it in the curriculum, largely on the grounds of "academic freedom...
Critics of TT concede that it can alleviate tension and anxiety. But Selby asks, "Why doesn't the nurse just come in and sit on the side of the patient's bed and talk, perhaps hold his hand? It would have the same effect." And in a column in the Toronto Star, Henry Gordon, a local skeptic, likened that relief to the placebo effect, which, he wrote, "makes TT no different from the laying on of hands." Dr. William Jarvis, president of the National Council Against Health Fraud, in Loma Linda, California, agrees: "I see therapeutic touch as a form...
Jarvis may have been referring to Jean Watson, who heads Colorado's C.H.C. and accepts TT, and to Quinn, an associate professor at the university's health sciences center. Quinn teaches TT courses, lectures widely and has also produced a $675 video called Therapeutic Touch: Healing Through Human Energy Fields, which the Manhattan-based National League for Nursing is promoting...
...league, a major accreditor of nursing schools, will probably continue to lend its considerable clout to TT; its president-elect for 1995 is none other than Jean Watson...