Word: comets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Spielberg must, in addition, contend with the comet trail of Star Wars, the summer sleeper directed by George Lucas that now threatens to surpass Jaws' $400 million worldwide gross. Close Encounters is also a science fiction film, and thus it will inevitably be compared to Star Wars. Since Spielberg's movie cost almost twice as much, Columbia Pictures, which financed Close Encounters, has gone to unusual lengths to protect its investment. From the outset, the film has been shrouded in secrecy to ensure that its suspense not be blown prior to release. Cast and crew have been forbidden to discuss...
...comet Kohoutek. Video-telephones Space-food sticks. New Jersey Gov. Brendan Byrne. Detente...
...cults, the Children of God stand out as, well, exotic. Once the most zealous of America's Jesus People, they used to disrupt other church services and denounce public schools, capitalism and what they considered the System. About 3½ years ago, inspired by a belief that the Comet Kohoutek heralded the destruction of America and the onset of the End Times, they began closing most of their 100 "colonies" and drifted off to Europe...
...harvest of Roots has yet to make Author Alex Haley feel relaxed. Though he will garner at least $5 million from his book, Haley's comet is sputtering. He is dead tired. He has been out on the lecture circuit or visiting Gambia or receiving honorary degrees almost every day of the month. As for his megabucks, Haley says that so far they have enabled him only to get out of debt-a feat that might in itself rank as the differentiating factor between the rich and the merely upwardly mobile...
...numbers, says Arthur Okun, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, mean "the freeze thawed out quicker than we thought." He adds that the notion that the winter cold would do lasting damage to the economy "was the biggest fizzle since Kohoutek's comet." Just as the January figures were unduly depressed, current statistics might be distorted by the bounce back from the January slump. Nonetheless, the outlook seems bright-if inflation can be wrestled down...