Word: gathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quiet Beverly Hills, Calif., neighborhood, residents have been awakened at dawn as thousands of people gather for an 8 a.m. showing at a theater seating 1,450. Every day 5,000 moviegoers stand in the long queue wrapped around the Sack 57 Cinema in Boston. Four Manhattan theaters have lines extending for blocks from noon to midnight. In its first five weeks, The Exorcist (TIME, Jan. 14-21) has rung up more than $10 million at box office cash registers in 20 cities. Glowing -and gloating-Warner Bros, executives predict that it will easily top the alltime moneymaker The Godfather...
...laboratory of neuropharmacology at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Md., and Walle Nauta, 57, of M.I.T., are using special staining techniques to trace the brain's neuronal pathways. "We have a long way to go," says Bloom, "but every little piece of information we gather leads us toward a better understanding of the way that the brain reacts to the outside world...
Sabbath Songs. It is the company of other stars, though, that gives comfort to many of the show-business names who gather at the synagogue. No one is singled out by pesky fund raisers, autograph hunters or gawkers, a devotional hazard at other Los Angeles area synagogues. When he belonged to another temple, Comic Jack Carter recalls, "People kept staring and whispering, 'Isn't that Joey Bishop?' Now I'm with my own peers, and I dig the fellowship...
...endlessly fascinating, the recollections are worth the entire price of production. Here, for instance, is Howard Hawks recalling a hunting trip on which an actor and an author met for the first time. The actor asked who the good living writers were. The author answered, "Thomas Mann, Willa Gather, John Dos Passes, Ernest Hemingway and myself." The actor said, "You write, Mr. Faulkner?" And the author replied, "Yes. What do you do, Mr. Gable...
...illustrated survey, owls are not philosophers but predators, perfectly equipped for their occupation. They have front-set eyes that give them exceptional binocular vision. Their heads rotate 270 degrees. Their hearing is extremely acute, partially because on most nocturnal species saucer-shaped disks of feathers around their eyes also gather sound. Owl plumage is soft, which also helps: it enables them to fly silently toward their prey. The perfect Christmas gift for those who give a hoot...