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Vinton is not your average pretty face. In fact, his face can turn inside out, or metamorphose into Mr. Spock or the Andrews Sisters of a battleship. Vinton is the inventor of Claymation, that nifty process of filming multicolored clay figures in stop-motion, to make people and animals and dinosaurs and lots and lots of money...
...chapter book. Here Wills' cinematic thesis tends to fade out. "What is Star Wars," he asks rhetorically, "but another, more complex projector meant to trace, in lasers and benign nuclear 'searchlights,' the image of America itself across the widest screen of all?" But Reagan is not the inventor of the Strategic Defense Initiative; he is merely its most ardent spokesman. Surely the scientists and military executives who think SDI feasible cannot all have been transfigured by the dazzle of show business. Reagan, Wills maintains, "believes that terrorists will stay away from jet planes if America acts like a cowboy...
...Nobel prizes were first awarded in 1901 as a legacy of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite. The prize in economics was established in 1968 as a memorial to Nobel...
...Kenneth Millar in 1915 and died three years ago of Alzheimer's disease. The second is 69 and lives in Florida, as does his popular P.I. Travis McGee, the "tinhorn knight on a stumbling Rosinante from Rent-A-Steed." The third is a former Boston Globe critic and the inventor of the flippant Fletch, whose snooping is sanctioned by a press card rather than a badge...
...florists in New York with Candy-Gram shops in Oregon. Another yokes travel agents to airlines and hotels around the world. Others bind together bank tellers, brokers, car rental chains, defense contractors, factory robots, police departments, university labs, intelligence agencies and the vast U.S. military machine. Says Robert Metcalfe, inventor of the networking system called Ethernet: "It's like one big nervous system...