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...redwood house above the shifting kelp beds and nocturnal sea of Carmel, an old man is playing the piano, not too well. The room is large, worn and comfortable, decked with the heterogeneous souvenirs of a long life???rows of Indian pottery, elegantly woven tribal baskets and a huge Chinese ceremonial drum. The piano player's head, a bald mass, gleams in the light. His hands, swollen from arthritis, hardened by decades of immersion in darkroom chemicals, skitter over the keys, assaulting the same phrase again and again. "Damn," he says, "I've lost it." But not altogether. Once...
Meanwhile Israel braced itself for a new round of terrorist violence, which was plainly calculated to derail the Begin-Sadat-Carter summit meeting that is scheduled for next week at Camp David. Israeli television broadcast graphic?and all too true-to-life???programs instructing viewers on how to cope with terrorist bombs. A citizens' organization set up a fund to pay the equivalent of a $550 reward to anyone who discovered and reported an explosive device. At police urging, homeowners began checking their residences twice daily for terrorist booby traps. So far, the extraordinary precautions have paid off". More than...
Eighteen months later, Chambers (then a senior editor of TIME) told HUAC that Hiss was a Communist. Not so, said Hiss, who also insisted that he had never known Chambers. But Chambers knew so many details about Hiss's life???including the fact that Hiss, an amateur ornithologist, had once spotted a rare prothonotary warbler on the banks of the Potomac?that his adversary was finally forced to reverse himself. Then Chambers made a more serious accusation: that Hiss had passed State Department secrets to him in the late 1930s...
Spielberg's point of view in the movie is almost childlike. Close Encounters is in part a celebration of innocence. The characters who achieve contact with extraterrestrial life???especially a wideeyed four-year-old boy (Gary Guffey) ?are those who are most open to experiencing the unexpected. Only the innocent seize the clues that lead to Close Encounters' equivalent of Oz, the spot where the space visitors will land. Only those who are willing to follow instinct can begin to grasp the extraterrestrials' unique, nonverbal language. Though Spielberg is certainly propagandizing for a belief in UFOs in Close Encounters...
...being has a right to make of his life what he wants." In October 1970 Solzhenitsyn won the Nobel Prize. When the Soviet press increased its abuse of the author, Rostropovich became enraged and decided to write a letter of protest. Says he: "This was greatest step of my life???the greatest...