Word: crichtons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WESTWORLD was written by Michael Crichton, author of the novel from which The Andromeda Strain was adapted. Here, making his debut as a director, he provides mechanical film making to match his machine-tooled prose. He posits an amusement park for adults, run by computer technicians and scientists, where the customers pay plenty to live out their elaborate, generally adolescent fantasies. The hero (Richard Benjamin) dresses up as a cowboy and gets to spend a week in a replica of a Western town, where he becomes involved in saloon brawls, witnesses bank robberies, goes upstairs with the ladies who hang...
...Sarah Crichton '75, Currier's representative to CHUL and a member of the freshman year subcommittee, last week termed the petition a "pre-battle, defensive measure" in response to the CHUL discussion. Crichton said the removal of freshmen from Currier was raised when the subcommittee considered various methods for filling the new freshman dormitory under construction...
...freshmen are not assigned to Currier next year, upperclassmen from all three Radcliffe Houses would fill their places and the upperclass assignment to the former Hotel Continental would be reduced, Crichton said. An alternative proposal is to place approximately 100 upperclassmen in the Yard to fill the spaces created by the new dormitory, she said...
SATURDAY: The Andromeda Strain. 1971. Robert Wise, who directed one of the best science fiction flicks ever, "The Day the Earth Stood Still," teamed with pop fiction writer Michael Crichton to produce this thriller about a biological menace to the world's population. A corker of an ending. CH. 4. 9 p.m. Color...
...Interest has been substantially less than last year," Sarah Crichton '75 of Currier House, said yesterday. In Currier, two people expressed any interest at all in participating although signs had been put up publicizing the election. The greatest number of people indicating interest in any of the Houses contacted was three in both Dunster and Adams...