Word: creation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effects with black and white film, an ancient-sounding though perfectly intelligible sound track, astonishingly authentic-looking sets, and lots of dry ice on the ground. In a different way he shows even more respect for the book. The romantic writers were preoccupied with the relationship between artist and creation, and in her novel Mary Shelley explored the consequences of the creator's inability to accept responsibility for his creation. One only has to see Young Frankenstein with his arms around the monster, affectionately crooning, "This is a good boy...this is a mother's angel," to recognize that Brooks...
...good to read that Jacob Preus has not yet determined the length of the creation days or the age of the earth...
...ordained Christian missionary (and self-made millionaire) whose message of repentance was blatted across the U.S. last year by thousands of zealous young converts to his Unification Church (TIME, Sept. 30). Yet another prophet is Daisaku Ikeda, 46, president and spiritual leader of Japan's Soka Gakkai (Value-Creation Society), a laymen's Buddhist organization. Ikeda is fast earning a reputation as a super missionary for peace...
...written a bestselling book about his impressions of Mao's revolution. In other books, lectures and articles, which are seriously and lengthily analyzed in the Tokyo press, Ikeda has advocated a world food bank, cutbacks in defense expenditures, and nuclear disarmament. His most consuming passion is the creation of an international people-to-people crusade against war. "Government leaders come and go," he explains. "Not the contact established and fostered for peace, people to people...
...writer and performer, Brooks, 48, has a 25-year string of credits that includes television's Your Show of Shows, the creation of the Get Smart series and, with Carl Reiner, the comedy record albums of The 2000 Year Old Man. When he turned to film making, he promptly won two Oscars, one for his short film The Critic (1963), the second for the story and screenplay of The Producers (1968). But Producers and his second feature, The Twelve Chairs, were box office flops, beloved by only a small but fanatic band. Last year, however, he broke...