Word: fi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...didn't find doodley-squat!" An I now to deny this statement, along with my past, just because my Creator had other plans? No. I am free to choose my own course, and I've decided to rededicate myself to failure. I'm not going to continue writing sci-fi trash for porn magazines. Instead, I'll criticize the many other failures in the literary world...
...Brooks Brothers bathrobe, or a towel set. I would like to not care who Philip Roth is, whether or not he has earned the license to write a novel so apparently decadent and outrageous, or whether this is the appropriate follow-up to a story about a gargantuan sci-fi mammary gland. The Great American Novel is certainly utterly bereft of Greatness, but it is great in the way that Tony the Tiger intones the word. And it is not, as some have intimated, the pretentious and self-indulgent product of a jaded literary titan who has nothing better...
Responding to mysterious sci-fi bleepings, a group of flower children led by David Haskell come together for a splash party in Central Park's Belvedere Fountain. There they find Christ: an androgyne wearing a Superman sweatshirt. Repairing to a junkyard, which handles only clean and cute junk, they outfit themselves as a band of strolling players devoted to acting out the Passion against the picturesque backdrop of the modern Jerusalem (Manhattan!). The players hop, skip and bounce relentlessly through their routines as if the relevant saint for them was St. Vitus. Not that any of these rolling pebbles...
...Invisible Man. James Whale, of "Frankenstein" fame, directed this adaptation of the H.G. Welles Sci-Fi classic...
...Andromeda Strain. Robert Wise translated Michael Crichton (recent Harvard grad)'s sci-fi novel into a cool and canny thriller. An alien micro-organism threatens to destroy the human race in this 1971 film. CH. 4. 9 p.m. Color...