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...goal is grandiose: to collect and analyze every offensive term ever used on the planet, and to make Aman synonymous with malediction the world over. Says he: "I've spent eleven years on it, day and night, working like a demented beaver because so much has to be done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Insult Artistry | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

There is one gesture of Obi-Wan's, however, that he still regrets. When the planet Alderaan blows up, Obi-Wan reels backward and clutches his forehead, an unpardonable cliché in Guinness's opinion. "I still go hot and cold when I think of that scene," he confesses. During those awkward moments, he has at least one consolation: his 2¼% of the film's profits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Second Strike | 1/2/1978 | See Source »

...founders, California State University Student Richard Stellar (his real last name, he insists), reports that orders are now coming in at the rate of 25 to 50 a day. The most sought after extraterrestrial neighborhood is the planet Vulcan, popularized by Star Trek's Mr. Spock. "We're only at the grass-roots beginning," proclaims Stellar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Unreal Estate | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

...committee's only target. It has challenged the claims by Psychiatrist-Writer Immanuel Velikovsky that the planet Venus was once a comet that swept close to the earth, causing flood, plague and other catastrophes in biblical times; his scenario violates a number of physical laws. In the committee's magazine, a twice-yearly publication called the Zetetic (Greek for skeptic), committee members have also knocked UFOlogy, biorhythms and astrology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Attacking the New Nonsense | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

LIFE ON THE PLANET earth commenced around three billion years ago in the fertile, seething seas. Eventually creatures left the water to try to survive on land. One form of life that evolved was a child-bearing, milk-suckling mammal. But about 50 million years ago some of the mammals that had formed the habit of eating fish returned to the seas. They were the ancient ancestors of the modern Cetacea--dolphins, porpoises and whales...

Author: By Celia W. Dugger, | Title: Killing Whales For No Apparent Porpoise | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

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