Word: oscars
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...Hungarian-born Pal, who came to the U.S. in 1939, had already made a name as a cinema cartoonist, but soon turned to full-length features; his first science-fiction film, Destination Moon (1950), anticipated procedures and equipment used in the 1969 lunar landing and brought him an Oscar, followed by others for The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine. He was pleased by the sci-fi revival sparked by Star Wars, which, he said, "proved again that a special effect is as big a star as any in the world...
Mostly, he did, though the Motion Picture Academy, which likes to give its awards to people who trumpet the loftiness of their themes, contented itself with nominating Hitchcock five times as best director. The only Oscar he got was a career-end special. Even after his death last week at 80 in his Bel-Air home, there were implacably middlebrow critics insisting that Hitchcock never placed his impeccably subtle technique in the service of "serious" matters. As if his lifelong contemplation of the way disorder violently intrudes upon the blithe assumptions of ordinary men that the world is a logical...
Thus began the remarkable sealift. In Miami, boat stores quickly sold out of maps of the waters around Cuba. "We're selling anything that floats," said Oscar Rodriguez, manager of B & F marine store. "People are buying lifesavers, lamps, rope-anything, just as long as they need it on a trip to Cuba." Cars with boat trailers clogged the narrow two-lane road from the Florida mainland to Key West; some bore license plates from states as far away as New York. Drowsy Key West, just entering its off-season slumber, bucked to life as drivers steered their bulky...
Move over Oscar, Emmy, Tony, Grammy. Make way for the Nevelson. The Nevelson? That is the American Book Awards, to be given for the first time this week for the past year's best offerings in 34 categories, including self-help and scifi. The prizes are broader than the venerable National Book Awards they replace, and the presentations will be made with more hoopla. Some wits have suggested that the new prize be called the Bookie. It was named instead after Sculptress Louise Nevelson, 80, who designed the plaque that goes to each winner, along with...
Within ten years a contralized computer system will replace this microfiche catalog, requring about half of the University's libraries to use more expensive procedures, Oscar Handlin, director of the University Library, said Tuesday...