Word: fi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...First Officer Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy), a pointy-eared half human, half Vulcanite who has become a cult unto himself. Many of the new Spock generation attending the convention wore plastic ears like their hero and sported buttons boasting I GROCK MR. SPOCK-"grock," Spockies explained, being sci-fi lingo for "dig without letup...
...team of Mission: Impossible. There is even the nucleus of an audience ready for Space: the Trekkies who have been homeless since 1969, when Star Trek went off the air. Dedicated cultists, they have made do with reruns, conventions and newsletters as they wait for big-time sci fi to come back to the small screen...
...have any cats of my own, and this experience has not increased my desire to have any," stated Actor Peter Ustinov, whose new movie casts him opposite Michael York, Jenny Agutter -and 150 feline costars. The sci-fi film, titled Logan's Run, shows Ustinov as the last human resident of Washington, D.C., left all alone to pussyfoot his way through the Senate Chamber. "When you get them all together, they are all very much different," said Ustinov of his furry associates. "One cat had asthma whenever I started to talk to it. I rather liked that one because...
Crichton, venturing outside sci-fi (The Andromeda Strain, The Terminal Man), again proves a skillful researcher and popularizer. Drawing from such scholars as Henry Mayhew, a bygone chronicler of the criminal subculture, he wittily lances the pomposities of 19th century England, when material and moral progress seemed inseparable...
...transmutation of the character is remarkable. When his head is bowed, it is not in resignation but rather like that of a bull bloodied by the picador yet ready to charge again. Where the lines have Willy on the verge of whining, Scott roars out a défi to a malignant fate. Never has the father in Willy come across so forcefully. His boys Biff and Happy, finely played by James Farentino and Harvey Keitel, are inextricably involved with this man. They cannot ignore him since his passionate concern for them and their future is so movingly transparent. Only...