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Word: likeness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...roads, people (the law) expect all these things of you. You've got to be licensed, registered, inspected, and insured. And you must act predictably. A lot of eyes are on you, and your eyes are on a lot of others. When other drivers see you. you will look like them (you're in a car). You will act like them. And you will be like them because, if you are thinking about your driving, you are thinking like them...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: In the Streets Cars | 12/10/1969 | See Source »

...play. As Ryan O'Neal, who plays Oliver, had never been on skates until two days before, Bill Cleary, the freshman hockey coach, stood in for him on the long shots-wearing a blond wig that curled out from under his helmet (but only an inch or so) just like Ryan's hair. All the other players were regular Harvard under-graduates except for one specially hired French-Canadian who has two lines (in French-Canadian...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: Shooting with the Stars | 12/10/1969 | See Source »

...fancy maneuvers again and again for the cameramen. It should come out looking fantastic. For a few sequences the director Arthur Miller (who just did Popi ) had the camera fastened between two hockey sticks with a skater moving it over the ice after the puck. The whole contraption looked like a large but frail vacuum-cleaner as it swooped in and out of the players trailing the puck...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: Shooting with the Stars | 12/10/1969 | See Source »

...Hiller has sworn not to use any too-artsy techniques, like the slow motion in Goodbye Columbus as Ali bounds toward the river for a swim one balmy evening. Altogether, Hiller impressed me as the most intelligent person around. He strolled up and down the ice in his huge grey-green parka, looking out from the fur with deep brown monkey-wise eyes in a face that does not look so much lined or aged as well-used...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: Shooting with the Stars | 12/10/1969 | See Source »

...wasn't in SAG (Screen Actors' Guild) but whose brother's roommate's friend shared an apartment with Marty Richards or something like that: he was being an extra and helping with the paperwork and taking an entrepreneur's holiday all at the same time. During the nights he runs a nightclub in Boston, but that is by no means all. He has enough pies to use up toes as well as fingers: an electronics firm in Massachusetts with outlets in Long Island, some real estate deals, and of course eventually he will take over his father's business...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: Shooting with the Stars | 12/10/1969 | See Source »

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