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...senior like me, you are probably cringing because you also must face the daunting task of choosing that one topic which you will embrace, study and finally write like mad about...
Director George Miller, creator of Babe as well as the Mad Max franchise, was slaving away last week, trying to get the $90 million-plus film in shape for its Nov. 25 opening. The notoriously deliberative Miller admits that some of the problem was "self-inflicted." He says he hadn't seen the film on a big screen until last Thursday, and he agrees that it was overwhelming. "The movie was far too loud," he says. "And the voices were far too shrill and strident... I'm relieved I have the opportunity to get this [reworked], because it would have...
...final pieces in the collection are about the mad scramble of the Americans to leave Saigon in April 1975. Keyes Beech of the Chicago Daily News was one of the last reporters out, leaving aboard a helicopter that took off from the roof of the American embassy as thousands of fearful South Vietnamese begged to be taken out of their country. Beech clawed his way through that crowd and, as Vietnamese clung to his limbs, was finally pulled over the embassy wall by a U.S. Marine. "My last view of Saigon," he wrote, "was through the tail door...
...their casts through ever more ethereal effects of movement and stage lighting; their defiance of gravity was to popular theater what the computer generation of dinosaurs and space oddities is to movies today. Arthur Conan Doyle was the son of a fairy painter, Charles Altamont Doyle, who died mad, but the creator of Sherlock Holmes was so gullible himself that as late as 1917 he defended some fake photos of fairies made by an enterprising pair of teenage English schoolgirls. You'd almost suppose that the national emblem of England was neither the lion nor the unicorn nor even John...
After reading your article, I promptly downloaded and installed Netscape Navigator and uninstalled Microsoft's Internet Explorer. I wanted to do my part to ensure that a power-mad Gates does not control every aspect of desktop computing and the World Wide Web. Is total domination of the computer world the only thing that will satisfy this man? Not if I have anything to say about it! I hope I'm not alone. SCOTT FULLMER Delta, Utah