Word: hals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spared the chilly detached efficiency that can make Henry a Fortinbras or Octavius writ large. This king is not merely admirable but actually likable. In short, Plummer gives us Harry as well as Henry. And the reigning king even betrays vestiges of the unrcined prince Hal from the two previous plays, as when he flicks tennis balls to a couple of courtiers, leaps up into the arms of his uncle Exeter, or delivers 'Forgive me, God' as a kind of self-conscious jest...
DRAGONSLAYER Directed by Matthew Robbins Screenplay by Hal Barwood and Matthew Robbins...
Earlier, by starting an unusual double-play on an attempted sacrifice. Harvard catcher Joe Wark had snuffed out a Columbia rally. With runers on first and second and nobody out in the fifth, Hal Robertson bounced a best off the plate, that Wark barehanded and threw Danny Skaff at third, Skaff relayed to first for the 2-5-3 twin killing...
...Hal Plotkin...
...admirable theory, but the whole tradition of the demonic robot assumes that when a metal creature feels immortal longings, no mere law can rein him in. Arthur C. Clarke demonstrated that in 2001. The computer HAL not only operates the space ship and talks in a supercilious tenor but is so exalted by its own superiority ("I am incapable of making an error") that it starts killing the astronauts who interfere with its plans. In a 1976 MGM effort titled Demon Seed, a presumptuous robot goes even further and fulfills the sinful ambition of making Julie Christie pregnant. But then...