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...chicken in every spot at Far West sports and public events is the flappable radio station KGB chicken from San Diego. With its infowlable agility to leap and cavort, the chicken clucks up everything from San Diego Padres baseball games to supermarket openings. Feathered by Ted Giannoulas, 24, who now earns more than $50,000 a year for such appearances, the bird has flown as far as New York City with increasing recognition. Now, however, Giannoulas and KGB, which conceived the bird, are tangling over rights. KGB has filed a $250,000 damage suit claiming ownership of the chicken concept...
...measure of his reliable skills that we stay with him. We must also believe that Marthe Keller, who plays Fedora in the flashback scenes and her double in the contemporary sequences, has the Garboesque acting skills to match her undeniable beauty, and that requires a much more precarious leap of faith. Finally, because this movie invokes Director Wilder's earlier Sunset Boulevard, we are asked to accept a melodra matic manner of storytelling and characterization that is outmoded by at least a quarter of a century. Settings, dialogue, the very looks on the faces of everyone in Fedora...
This deeply troubles John Hanley, a soap supersalesman who rode the Tide to the top at Procter & Gamble and in 1972 floated over to become chief executive of one of its major chemical suppliers, Monsanto Co. Now Hanley, 57, is hard-selling a provocative idea: that technology could leap ahead if two basic but often distant institutions would join forces. Those two are U.S. universities and U.S. corporations...
...Instead go in the other direction. Look for ways to get mutations more quickly, new variety, different songs." Continued genetic errors, after all, enabled the primeval strand of DNA to diversify into the vast spectrum of life. Humans have mimed this sloppy but productive process; "the capacity to leap across mountains of information to land lightly on the wrong side represents the highest of human endowments." With tongue in cheek, Thomas hails the arrival of the computer age; he looks forward to the bigger mistakes that the programming of bigger computers will make...
...believe that any work bearing Thomas' name would ever appear on paperback racks in airports or drugstores. But then, as The Medusa and the Snail indicates, there is no reason for expecting many things to happen until they do; only then can the moving forces behind events leap into clarity...