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...constituents of Fahrenheit 451, a number that both denotes the flash point of paper and identifies one of the innumerable book-burning brigades set up after World War III by a dictatorship determined to put out the fire of freedom in the human heart. Assembled first in that overproductive fiend factory, the fantascientific brain of Author Ray Bradbury, the brigade has now been refurbished by France's Francois Truffaut in a weirdly gay little picture that assails with both horror and humor all forms of tyranny over the mind...
...often attacked their crops was nothing less than God's punishment for their sins. The Romans, who knew the same agricultural scourge, placed a special god in charge of it and prayed to him for mercy. In King Lear, Shakespeare blamed rust's presence on a "foul fiend" named Flibbertigibbet. Whatever its origin, the fungus is still thriving; its red, yellow and orange splotches on stems and leaves cause a grain-crop loss of hundreds of millions of dollars every year. And every time that modern agronomists breed a resistant grain, within a decade...
...Little Fiend. There are few musicians today who can claim such a firsthand connection with "the old days." Rubinstein was born in 1887, in the shabby industrial town of Lodz, Poland, where his father owned a small handloom factory. He was the last of seven children. "My mother did not want a seventh child," he explains, "so she decided to get rid of me before I was born. Then a marvelous thing happened. My aunt dissuaded her, and so I was permitted to be born. Think of it! It was a miracle...
...toddler, he would eavesdrop on his sisters' piano lessons, and by the time he was three he was "a terrible little fiend" about music, screaming when his sisters struck a sour note, banging the piano lid down on their fingers. At four, he was performing at charity concerts, pressing his engraved calling cards on everyone he met: ARTUR THE GREAT PIANO VIRTUOSO. It annoyed him even then that people always asked if he was any kin to the great Anton Rubinstein, and so he took to prancing around town with the words NO RELATION inscribed on the front...
...FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Eddie Albert guests as Brother Love, a master fiend using a religious cult as a front for his plot to conquer the world...