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DIED. Henry Miller, 88, earthy novelist and evangelist of unfettered sex, once hailed by Norman Mailer as "the last great American pioneer," in Pacific Palisades, Calif. After two decades as a roustabout in jobs ranging from a tailor shop to a New York speakeasy, Miller joined the expatriate migration to Paris, where he wrote his autobiographical sagas, Tropic of Cancer, (1934), and Tropic of Capricorn, (1939). Their bawdiness prevented their publication in the U.S. until the liberated 1960s, but Miller, who married five times and spent his later years ruminating on California's Big Sur, lived...
Nearly as big as the U.S., this plateau is literally out of the world-on Venus. Though the perpetual cloud cover of the earth's nearest planetary neighbor has kept its surface tantalizingly hidden, Venus' veil is being lifted by a gifted robot. The Pioneer-Venus Or biter spacecraft has been circling the planet since December 1978, analyzing its atmosphere and scanning and rescanning its surface with radar. Last week NASA released the first renderings of these extraterrestial data, revealing a dramatic and awesome landscape still in the process of formation. Though 60% of the Venusian topography consists...
DIED. George Pal, 72, Hollywood producer-director and pioneer of cinema science fiction, whose special effects won his films eight Academy Awards; of an apparent heart attack; in Beverly Hills, Calif. The 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...
Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, the pioneer space fantasy, had 35 separate special-effects shots. Star Wars, which made good use of nine more years of development in computer technology, had 380. The Empire has 414. Yet even that number is deceptive; some of The Empire's shots are far beyond anything in Star Wars in daring and sophistication...
America is a land of invention, with a long tradition of the pioneer spirit of doing-it-yourself. Nowhere is this creative genius clearer than in the field of religion, for in its short life as a nation America has yielded up Mormans and Pentecostals, Seventh Day Adventists, Jehovah's Witnesses and Christian Scientists, Theosophists and Transcendentalists. Immigrants from all over the world have brought their native faiths to the U.S., further increasing the potency of the mixture. But at no time in the nation's history have there been so many and varied spiritual practices, some wholly new, some...