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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the creation. Right before your eyes, Paramount Pictures will attempt, using a rare blend of ancient skills and modern moxie, to manufacture a blockbuster hit. The blockbuster has, for the last dozen years or so, been cherished as the Miracle Aid cure for an ailing film industry and, for the moment at least, Paramount is rapidly becoming known as blockbuster-broker No. 1. In the way that one picture often constitutes a Hollywood trend, two can make a reputation, and Paramount's current supremacy is based on a pair of recent box office-boggling...
...theatrics, "Grandmasters" is engrossing reading for any patzer. But after all is said and done, the grandmaster stories, the tales of prodigies and madness, all blend together. Someone ought to write a book about us patzers. After all, I once lived next door to the guy who taught Bobby Fischer...
Music Notes. The Performance Center features blues group Tracy Nelson and Mother Earth in concert with up-and-coming English rockers 10 cc through Saturday, March 2, 8 and 10:30 p.m.... Seals and Crofts, a harmonious blend of Baha'i spirituality and AM jive, will play Tuesday, March 5, at Boston Music Hall...
Eric Cottell, a British-born inventor, does not change base metals into gold, but he does mix oil and water-and these days that may be the most welcome alchemy of all. Cottell claims that in a furnace a blend of three parts oil and one part water burns so much more cleanly and efficiently than ordinary oil that it can cut fuel consumption by at least 20% while producing almost no soot or ash. He also claims that road tests show that a car can run on 18% water and 82% gasoline, with such a low output of pollutants...
...journalist and short-story writer, stayed on for weeks at Kingcome: listening, interviewing, taking notes. Like many another writer in similar circumstances, she resolved that she would get it all down before it was gone forever. What she finally produced was I Heard the Owl Call My Name, a blend of fact and imagination that can better be described as a prose elegy than a novel...