Word: benjamin
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...adapted. Here, making his debut as a director, he provides mechanical film making to match his machine-tooled prose. He posits an amusement park for adults, run by computer technicians and scientists, where the customers pay plenty to live out their elaborate, generally adolescent fantasies. The hero (Richard Benjamin) dresses up as a cowboy and gets to spend a week in a replica of a Western town, where he becomes involved in saloon brawls, witnesses bank robberies, goes upstairs with the ladies who hang around the saloon, and gets stalked by a gunslinger in black...
Brynner). Benjamin also gets to gun down Brynner on a couple of occasions, since Brynner, like all the residents of Westworld, is a robot. The automatons weary of the monotony and indignity of their life and rebel or, more properly, run amuck, as they are wont...
Conservation efforts are equally vigorous away from the office. Deputy Chief of Correspondents Benjamin Cate has just traded in an eight-cylinder sports car for a four-cylinder auto that cannot make jackrabbit starts but uses only half as much gasoline as the sports car. Picture Researcher Suzanne Richie has begun weaving blankets for friends on a foot-powered loom in her apartment, and Nation Reporter-Researcher Sally Bedell no longer leaves a 75-watt bulb on in her apartment to sustain her exotic $75 dracaena house plant. For Business Writer Jack Kramer, a former London resident, economizing on energy...
...penny saved is two pence clear A pin a day is a groat a year -Benjamin Franklin...
BENEDICT ARNOLD'S classical treason and Aaron Burr's sinister plotting are as integral a part of American tradition as Nathan Hale's martyrdom or Benjamin Franklin's diplomacy. Arnold and Burr are the flip side of the historical coin, and to try to turn either into a hero seems a thankless task...