Word: anderson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CELEBRATION Directed by LINDSAY ANDERSON Screenplay by DAVID STOREY
...Contractor is that Mrs. Shaw remains as remote from us as she does from her family. Storey cannot bring us near enough to see or understand the failures of the past. The film gives the sense of the revelation of a scar. This impression is reinforced by Director Lindsay Anderson's remark that for Storey, "the circumstances of the piece are extremely personal." Storey's father is a coal miner in the north of England. Like Steven, Storey has written novels and like Andrew, has also tried his hand at painting...
...Heinlein? Science Fiction, Today and Tomorrow is a collection of fifteen essays that focuses on some of these questions and tries to provide answers. The authors of the short pieces are drawn from the top ranks of science fiction writing: Frank Herbert, Frederik Pohl, Alan E. Nourse, Poul Anderson and Jack Williamson. They bring their considerable talents to bear on the issues confronting science fiction, but the end result, while absorbing, tends to be choppy. The essays run the gamut from a discussion of science fiction in the visual media to a detailed description of the way a writer creates...
...contributor; from the short, contained prose of Frank Herbert to the philosophic ramblings to Theodore Sturgeon. The book is labelled "A Discursive Symposium" and indeed, it is a comprehensive survey of the field. Frederik Phol and George Zebrowski analyze science fiction in publishing and the visual media Poul Anderson and Hal Clement, in back-to-back essays, explain how writers create imaginary worlds and creatures, drawing on scientific data. And one of the few female science fiction novelists. Anne McCaffrey, examines the lack of glamour and romance in science fiction...
...compendium of all the middle-aged plaints one has heard about in recent drama and fiction or, quite possibly, from the next-door neighbor. In Act II, the couple is joined by two English-speaking lizards complete with crocodile tails. The lizards, Leslie (Frank Langella) and Sarah (Maureen Anderson), have been almost ostentatiously monogamous considering the myriads of marine creatures they have slithered against during the eons they have spent together down in the aquatic depths. The foursome exchange amusing and sometimes half-menacing notes on their differing life-styles and the pleasures and perils of evolution...