Word: penned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pauline Kael, LL.D., film critic, The New Yorker. Like Godard with his guillotine lens, she writes with an often acerbic pen, cutting through the can of films that threaten to dehumanize us. William McC. Martin Jr., LL.D., former Federal Reserve Board chairman...
...named Jacques Mossier was found bludgeoned and stabbed to death in 1964 in Key Biscayne, Fla., his blonde wife Candace, 44, and her nephew and boy friend, Melvin Lane Powers, 22, were prime suspects, so they hired Foreman. If Candy and Melvin "got off without a day of pen time," says Foreman, she agreed to pay him $250,000, plus the appraised value of four parcels of Houston property she owned-a total of $1,478,325. Payments lagged, and Foreman haled his ex-clients into court. After former Assistant U.S. Attorney General Will Wilson testified that...
...dehumanized by having their names replaced by numbers can take heart. They too can play the numbers game-and all in the name of law and order. Police in Scarsdale, N.Y., have just instituted an antiburglary campaign called Project Theft Guard in which residents may borrow an electric engraving pen and etch their Social Security numbers on such stealable items as TV sets, record players, typewriters, jewelry and bicycles. The home owners are also given stickers declaring THIS HOUSE HAS JOINED PROJECT THEFT GUARD to paste on their front and back doors. The safety measures, say police, will not only...
Both The Terminal Man and Binary -written under the author's old Harvard Medical School paperback pen name, John Lange-share their author's distinctive touch. Crichton creations thrive on a scientific esoterica that owes more to fact than to fiction. Crichton people tend to be value-neutral technicians who, like sorcerer's apprentices, meddle with forces they cannot control. Above all, there is Crichton's almost compulsive awareness of time and his skill at explaining the complex without losing the reader's interest...
...Crichton is learning the movie business. Right down to those hard-boiled comments as familiar on film sets as in the operating room. Not that he ever spent much time in surgery. At Harvard, Crichton used a pen more often than a scalpel. Before graduating he had published half a dozen paperback thrillers under the name of John Lange. He also researched Five Patients, his documentary about the workings of a large medical center. In 1968 A Case of Need won the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award. For that book -a swiftly plotted story biased in favor of abortion...