Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Another odd Bulgarian death...
...computer revolution began coming to supermarkets in the early '70s in the form of the UPC (Universal Product Code), the odd, stamp-size box of black bars and numbers printed on just about everything from soup cans to the covers of TIME magazines sold in the U.S. The UPC was to be the core of a system that would not only keep up-to-date records on inventories and prices, but also eliminate cash register errors, since check-out clerks would tot up a shopper's bill by merely passing the purchases over an optical scanner capable...
...have anything to say," he begins, "but I'll answer any questions." His voice is higher than one would expect, viscous and slighly drawly, the vocal equivalent of the corn syrup produced in his native Kansas. For over an hour Altman answers questions from the 30-odd reporters sitting in front of him. He responds patiently and candidly, even when faced with questions he's obviously answered a hundred times in a hundred interviews. Below, some of Altman's responses to questions posed at the press conference...
Goin' South's script, set just after the Civil War, is essentially an extended two-character sketch. The other role is Julia Tate (Mary Steenburgen), a frigid young spinster whose odd habits include hanging up chairs on wall hooks. Julia weds Moon in a marriage of convenience: she needs someone to work her unsuccessful gold mine, while he needs a respectable wife to shield him from the law. The thin story traces the predictable warming up of their relationship. Pretty soon the film becomes a string of uneven set pieces, the best of which suggest Nichols...
...hunting down war criminals, pays small heed to news of this meeting. But when his informant, a young Jewish activist, is killed, he senses the gathering of some fresh evil on the part of his old enemies and begins investigating the case, an enterprise that takes him to many odd corners of the world and leads him-several plodding steps behind the audience-to the remarkable conclusion that somehow Mengele has succeeded where the rest of science has so far failed: he has cloned a man. And not just any old human being, but his hero, Adolf Hitler...