Word: fi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...real name), an internist who calls himself a child specialist, owns and runs a one-room clinic with a cubbyhole dispensary. Ito sees about 60 patients during each long clinic day, visiting a few bedridden patients at home in the afternoon. At night, relaxing with his hi-fi and a bottle of Scotch, Ito wonders aloud whether he can call himself "a true disciple of this noble science of medicine." He provides his own answer: "I often feel so ashamed of myself for doing what I do as a physician that I hate being called one. But what...
Bleeping and flashing at the checkout counters of a Kroger store in the Cincinnati suburb of Kenwood, the new device looks and sounds like something from a sci-fi movie. In fact, it is an experimental RCA computer system designed to speed customers through the counters and minimize chances that they will be overcharged by tired, rushed cashiers...
...every sci-fi fan knows, one of the great hazards of space travel between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter is the asteroid belt: a doughnut-shaped stretch of floating debris that could fatally pierce the thin metallic skin of a speeding spacecraft. Now, for the first time, a real ship is beginning to run this rocky gauntlet. Success will increase the possibility of future missions to Jupiter and the other outer planets (Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto...
Dirty Harry--A hack detective thriller directed by the talented Don Siegel from a script laden with authoritarian preaching. Clint Eastwood, perhaps the least talented superstar of all time, is Harry. With The Omega Mess, Charlton Heston in humdrum sci-fi. ASTOR. Harry: 1:15, 4:40. Omega...
Forbidden Planet. A sci-fi version of The Tempest. complete with a fiery Caliban monster as purely libidinous as anything filmed ever. Might provide welcome respite from delegate-counting. Tuesday, 8 p.m., CHANNEL...