Word: errors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much evidence that heavy cutting took place after shooting (why no one thinks to do this before the cameras turn, when it is ever so much cheaper, is one of Hollywood's enduring mysteries), since many scenes have nothing much to do with one another. The most egregious error of this sort concerns a geratic triangle involving Olivia de Havilland, Ben Johnson and Fred MacMurray that has no relation to the insect world. Then, too, one wonders about Michael Caine, the entomologist leading the fight against the winged villains. His lines suggest that there is more to his involvement...
MONTAILLOU: THE PROMISED LAND OF ERROR...
...author assures us it is true. We do not know." Despite this weak disclaimer, J.B. Lippincott Co. last March published In His Image as nonfiction. The book, though dull and error filled, stirred immediate controversy by claiming that a baby boy cloned from an eccentric aging millionaire (and thus his genetic duplicate), by a doctor named "Darwin," was alive and well. Had Lippincott checked with any of the reputable scientists quoted in the book or even with the editors in its own medical book division, it would have known that the story was probably fraudulent; experts agree that no mammal...
...Charles Walsh, 54, it was the computer-age equivalent of the BANK ERROR IN YOUR FAVOR card in Monopoly: the Commercial Trust Co. of Jersey City mistakenly notified him that $100,000 had been credited to his account. A bachelor who eked out a living buying and selling coins, Walsh quietly withdrew the money and set out to pursue his modest version of the American dream...
...growth rate swung crazily from almost 14% in one month to nearly zero in another, and the gyrations confused and alarmed moneymen. Miller aims for more stability by not pushing down wildly on the pedal or slamming on the brakes in one month to correct the previous month's error...