Word: marvelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...draped over the side of the bed, hanging just above floor level, and I kept having this nightmare of waking up with a mouse nibbling on my fingers. That's how I got the idea for Gremlins. "His imagination stoked by a young lifetime of reading Marvel Comic books, watching old Universal horror movies and collecting clay models of monsters, Columbus set to exorcising his tiny demons in a screenplay. By the end of that year, his script had found its way to the desk of Steven Spielberg...
...normally in the Winter Games, which for some reason (not the cold, surely) have managed to remain incident-free. The Olympic ideals have less to do with the familiar end-of-Games scenes of Mississippians hugging Muscovites than with the direct appreciation of sport. Not that one mutters, "I marvel at Olga Korbut; therefore I love all nations." Rather it is a matter of noting, usually in silence, the common human displays of excellence and struggle, both against oneself and against time. Down on the track a hurdler runs like mad to beat time. Up in the stands the aging...
...think the school tries to produce students that have a level of competency, but you ought to be more than competent--you ought to be poetic," says fourth-semester architecture student Jonathan Marvel. "The school tries to do everything, and in doing so I think it loses a lot in the field of theory...
...page comic book Spider-Man and Power Pack was produced by the National Committee for Prevention of Child Abuse with the cooperation of Marvel Comics. Lindsay Wagner is one of the performers in Touch, a 32-minute film to be shown on Minneapolis television May 1. Touch, which has been performed nationally as a play for four years, is the creation of the Minneapolis Illusion Theater, a group that specializes in dramas about child abuse. Among its skits are stories about a baby-sitter who tricks a child into disrobing and a man who fondles his granddaughter...
...fact, the entire team worked in spurts, moving into an unknown Twilight Zone, then beaming back to Marvel. While Harvard fans displayed "Go For It. Crimson" signs and kept waiting for their squad to blow the lid off the Bruins' home gym, the Crimson seemed a bit listless after its victory at Yale the night before. But as tried as the squad appeared, they did muster the energy to keep Brown in the contest...