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Koernke's passion, however, was science. He devoured science fiction (even today, the Star Trek books and the German Perry Rodan series, about a band of heroic warriors who take over the solar system, dominate his home bookcase) and, says science teacher William Eisenbeiser, devised elaborate schemes to build everything from a spaceship to a machine that would extract oil from shale. According to the Dexter Leader of April 24, 1975, Koernke won several science-fair prizes, one for a "communications antenna" that "is now being sold to nasa." Despite grades that several of his teachers recall as unspectacular...
...Show coming on at the beginning, Yosemite Sam, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and the gang. In a surge of adolescent enthusiasm, King burbled, "Wouldn't it be great to bring on all the monsters one last time? Bring them all on -- Dracula, Frankenstein, Jaws, The Werewolf, The Crawling Eye, Rodan, It Came from Outer Space, and call it It." But how could he combine them all in one book? Simple. Use a Tulpa -- the Tibetan word for a creature created by the mind...
...great pleasure of the film is purely visual. When the ungainly spike of the Tower first appears in the midst of San Francisco's skyline, it is so obviously a cut-and-paste job that you wince. The special effects are on the Star Trek level--somewhat better than Rodan but much, much worse than 2001. But once night falls and the fire begins, and you get used to it, the destruction acquires a weird beauty of its own. The flames lick out from the 81st floor, and punch holes--bam-bam-bam--in the fabric of the building...
...FRIDAY: Rodan (1956) and King Kong (1933). Back-to-back you get to see trillion-year-old bird monster terrorize Japan for about the 738th time and for the 738th time you can see the giant ape climb the world's third tallest building (fie, New York) and swat off biplanes like brushing off panhandlers. CH.56...
...other development missions in the fifties (Mason, Galbraith, David Bell). By the late fifties the study of development economics centered in the seminar organized at Harvard by Galbraith, with the later collaboration of Mason and Bell, and in the work carried on by Max Millikan, Rostow, P.N. Rosenstein-Rodan and others at the MIT Center for International Studies...