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Vladimir Ribaric, chief of the geophysical observatory in Ljubljana, said the earthquake registered 7.2 on the Richter scale, 1.2 points higher than Yugoslavia's worst recorded tremor...
...yesterday, after sitting through an earthquake that shook Santa Monica Monday at 4.6 on the Richter scale, Harvard was ready to close the trip and come home...
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS Directed by Philip Kaufman Screenplay by W.D. Richter...
That is not the end of the problems. W.D. Richter's script, especially in he early, expository going, is often laughably literal, and therefore incapable of establishing an air of mystery as people start becoming strangely abstract and distant. Director Philip Kaufman unwisely gets too close to the pods, trying to show just how the transformation works. He would have been wise to let our imaginations run riot on this matter rather than permitting his special effects people to do so, since all they come up with is some grimly gunky stuff, not nearly as suggestive as the sudsy...
...quake's most severe shock registered from 6.5 to 7.9 on the Richter scale, making it "possibly the worst in Mexican history" according to seismological experts at the national university...