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...Outer Limits (ABC)-is unlikely to start a new trend. Last week Donald Pleasence appeared as a professor who had a neurosurgical operation that harnessed the electricity in his brain, producing a ray-gun effect every time he looked at someone he didn't like. Plop, they fell dead of electrocution. During the show the screen danced and jumped with various antics of the cathode tube, intended to suggest "the mystery which reaches from the inner mind to the outer limits." At the end, an announcer said: "We now return control of your television set to you." That...
Some time in 1966, if U.S. space exploration sticks to schedule, a strange device the size of a milk bottle will plop onto the dry crust of Mars, set itself up on three self-adjusting legs, and begin a search for life. The detector will not be looking for bug-eyed monsters or giant, exotic plants. It will be satisfied with nothing more than a faint, fluorescent glow in its own compartmented innards...
...Plop, Plop. Small businessmen find they have little to fear from the corporate Goliaths. "General Electric and Westinghouse," says Donald Petersen, "have to spend $1,000,000 to set up a production line. They have to have those appliances coming off the end, plop, plop, in pastel blue and pastel yellow. Then they have to spend $3,000,000 to advertise and convince the homeowner he should buy in pastel blue or pastel yellow...
...Plop fall the plums." Plums fall very rarely in television, but last week-with that line from an ancient Chinese poem-a major plum indeed was offered on New York's independent WNEW-TV and Washington, D.C.'s WTTG-TV. British Actor Paul Scofield (A Man for All Seasons) and his wife, Actress Joy Parker, read poetry for an hour, ranging from Shelley's Ozymandias to T. S. Eliot's Family Reunion, and from Lord Byron's Don Juan to D. H. Lawrence's Bats...
Last week Lloyd presented the government's measures. They fell with a distinctly timeworn, hollow plop. Among them...