Word: braine
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brain that hatched Gremlins was 21 years old at the time and productively disturbed. In the summer of 1981, Chris Columbus, a former student at the New York University Film School, was living in a loft in the garment district of Manhattan. "When I went to sleep at night," he recalls, "I could hear mice scurrying along the floor. I slept with my arm draped over the side of the bed, hanging just above floor level, and I kept having this nightmare of waking up with a mouse nibbling on my fingers. That's how I got the idea...
...himself. He could not even walk. They hit the children...with their guns. They didn't even let the old man kiss his children. In front of the children they stood him up and shot him...They shot him in the mouth and the bullets came out from his brain...
...computer would also have a major impact on robotics, through its ability to imitate how the human eye transmits messages to the brain...
...Harold Arlen medley while the conductor and orchestra, supposedly influenced by the ghosts of George and Ira Gershwin, for whom the theater is named, keep bursting in with Gershwin themes. MacLaine manages to find a wistful, slightly torchy quality in one unlikely number, If I Only Had a Brain from The Wizard of Oz. For the rest of the evening, however, she pounds out lyrics clearly, but at pile-driver pace, denying herself the time to think out loud about what they mean...
DIED. Alan Schneider, 66, consummate stage director best known for his productions of plays by Samuel Beckett, Edward Albee and Harold Pinter; of brain injuries received when he was hit by a motorcycle; in London. Schneider was noted for his exacting fidelity to even the most complex script, as he worked to transmit the inner truth of a play rather than impose on it any other vision. He crusaded particularly for Beckett, and his productions of Waiting for Godot, Endgame and Krapp's Last Tape, among others, profoundly influenced the course of modern theater. Also closely associated with Albee...