Word: normans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Roddenberry assembled a talented production crew, and sought out some of the best science fiction writers around, men like Theodore Sturgeon, Robert Bloch, Harlan Ellison, Norman Spinrad, instead of relying on the usual hacks who specialized in cop shows and dumb westerns. At a cost of $200,000 for each episode, Star Trek at least strove for excellence and intelligence, if it came up short sometimes...
This is the first play by Kentuckian Marsha Norman but it is worth a trip to the Theater de Lys on Christopher St. to see how she has combined these lives into one soul. Dale Soules plays Arlene, a wiry woman locking out her past, anxious to deal with the daily pain of life in the real world without resorting to crime, without ugly language, without her old self--Arlie. Simultaneously, Julie Nesbitt carries on as Arlie, Arlene's violent past personified in this small but gutsy, foul-mouthed girl who hates authority and only loves for cash...
...Norman L. Wiken Meckling, S. Dak. Private Lives
...Norman S. Zalkind, Easterling's attorney, said prior to the sentencing yesterday, "We have the automatic right to have the case reviewed, and we will." He added that he would protest McGuire's final instructions to the jury in the appeal...
...Executioner's Song, By Norman Mailer. (Little, Brown. $16.95): This is simply the most important book of the year. Norman Mailer '43 tells the story of Gary Gilmore, the professional convict and murderer who was executed in Utah in 1978, in a spare prose style pervaded with the dread of death. Everyone except Roger Rosenblatt liked it. Mailer claims he rediscovered America doing the book. He finally shows evidence that he can fulfill the awesome promise he created with the publication of The Naked and the Dead some 30 years ago, at the callow...