Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Screenplay by ADAM KENNEDY...
...novel, Adam Kennedy's The Domino Principle was a thriller of more than usual style, distinguished by a fairly serious attempt to penetrate the mind of the sort of loser who, if properly manipulated, can be turned into a political assassin. Now the book has fallen into the heavy hands of Director Stanley Kramer, and, despite Kennedy's presence at the screenwriter's keyboard, everything that made the book good, popular fiction has somehow been lost...
...original exposes (the poster's word, not ours) what really happened in the Garden of Eden. According to Cornelia Ravenal's '79 new musical, the first play by a Radcliffe undergraduate ever to be produced at the Loeb, the big dating service in the sky made a mistake with Adam and Eve. While Eve thinks she was sent to earth to meet her mate. Adam thinks he was promised a maid. With such a beginning, an irresistibly slimy serpent, and a chorus of nine animals misnamed by Adam, complications of course, develop. Set to Ravenal's jazz-rock music...
...decided "Pong" was not suited for Him, but He thought Adam down in the Garden of Eden, who was getting pretty bored himself having nothing to do all day but eat forbidden fruit, might like the game. But Adam had no one to play with either so God created Eve out of Adam's rib so they could play pong...
...business, closer than Carter himself has proposed. An articulate advocate of such an approach is Thornton Bradshaw, the thoughtful president of Atlantic Richfield. Despite his belief in capitalism, Bradshaw contends that the U.S. does not enjoy a totally free market in which competing and countervailing forces work, as Adam Smith would have it, for the ultimate benefit of the consumer. Instead, the U.S. already has developed an only partially free market characterized by a unique blend of private and Government forces...