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...premises of The Terminal Man do raise other, more significant questions, but Crichton drops them almost with embarassment, for The Action Must Go On. Harry Benson, a slightly nutty computer programmer who fears that machines are taking over the world, is subject to dangerous fits. Disregarding the opposition of Janet Ross, the psychiatrist who fears a disturbance of Benson's precarious mental balance, a team of neurosurgeons implants a tiny computer terminal in his brain, designed to counteract the abnormal brainwaves that precede his epileptic seizures. Of course, the operation is not quite successful...
Harry is soon roaming the streets of Los Angeles, with his next fit due within six hours. Now--while the police are busy bunting Benson and Janet is sipping coffee in the staffroom--is the time for some exposition. The book contains an ample number of thoughtful, "relevant" digressions: an aside about the Los Angeles's "indigenous depersonalization syndrome" (p. 138), an interview with a potential "pleasure-addict" who wants to have the pleasure centers of his brain wired for continual stimulation (pages 82 to 84), and references throughout to the ascendancy of the machine. We are treated...
...monitors are sitting together watching the screen in a T.V. rating room. The five other actors act out what's happening on the screen. Skits from Westerns, newscasts, british war movies and religious crusades follow one after another and plenty of fun is made of commercials. Marilyn Duchin, Stephen Benson and the others make the spoofs light and enjoyable while the three monitors quarrel through their conventional day at the office. The exceptional--really adorable--performance was by Laurie Glimcher who talks, flirts and whines at her office companions while she tries to decide whether or not she wants...
...LOEB Ex they're playing Adaptation well enough for a good hour of laughter. Four players are involved: an Everyman named Phil Benson (Lindsay Davis); his parents and later teacher, psychiatrist, wife, and child (Jim Hickey and Francine Davis); and the Games Master (Lloyd Harris), who keeps the production jumping right along as he hands out points and penalties...
Rural Lightning Rod. While no Secretary of Agriculture can hope to be popular, Butz, 62, is an outspoken, Indiana-farm-born veteran of agriculture politics who can serve as Nixon's lightning rod for rural complaints, much as Ezra Taft Benson did for President Eisenhower, and Orville Freeman for both Kennedy and Johnson. A former head of Purdue's School of Agriculture and currently dean of continuing education at Purdue, Butz was an assistant secretary to Benson from 1954 to 1957. Since Benson was highly unpopular among farmers, that makes Butz an odd choice...