Word: fictional
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...centuries, in fiction as well as in fact, men have dreamed about going to Mars and exploring the Red Planet. Last week, on July 20, at 8:12 a.m. (E.D.T.)-seven years to the day after the first men walked on the moon-this dream became a reality. "Touchdown! We have touchdown!" shouted Project Manager James S. Martin Jr. as he watched the consoles at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Only 17 sec. behind schedule, the lander was safely down on Mars' Chryse Planitia (golden plains...
...their plots, Simon's breezy style and witty one-liners have kept audiences entertained and coming back for more. But now New Yorker Simon has relocated--he has gone west, to Hollywood, where he has written his first original screenplay, Murder by Death, an affectionate spoof of popular detective fiction, and something of a change from the more urbane, comedy of manners subject material of his earlier stage works. But like the plays, Murder by Death follows the Simon "formula"--lots of gloss and not much substance--and suffers as a result...
...some 400 bookstores in Manhattan. There are a few emporiums whose wares cannot be duplicated anywhere else: the Supersnipe Comic Book Art Emporium at Second Ave. and 84th St. stocks bygone comic books; rarer ones, like the first Captain Marvel Adventures, retail for $800 and up. The Science Fiction Shop, 56 Eighth Ave., is a space capsule in the guise of a library; its posters, Little Nemo postcards and Arthur Clarke first editions provide July's most dazzling sci-fireworks. Readers with kinkier inclinations can find New York's only semirespectable X-rated bookshop at 251 W. 42nd...
Sound like the script of a third-rate science-fiction thriller? It is reality in Cambridge, Mass., where the city council moved last week to prevent Harvard University and M.I.T. from engaging in genetic research that could create new -and possibly dangerous-life forms...
Liberals and "progressives" trying to reconcile themselves to Jimmy Carter should stay away from the July/August issue of the Columbia Journalism Review. Phil Stanford's analysis on the press coverage of the Democratic candidate (" 'The most remarkable piece of fiction' Jimmy Carter ever read") contains some unsettling tidbits about the former governor of Georgia...