Word: sci
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...script has one major surprise in it, but that apparently exhausted the writers, leaving them no energy to work the characters up even to the customarily low average of cheapie sci-fi entertainments. Director Roley does not enhance audience involvement by shooting everything through a diffusion filter. Obviously derived from The Birds, Chosen Survivors is also strictly for them. Or maybe for the made-for-TV movie market, where most of the cast - Jackie Cooper, Alex Cord, Richard Jaeckel, Bradford Dillman, Diana Muldaur - customarily find work...
...scientific ignorance of politicians, businessmen, and everyone else except scientists themselves, promises to be devastating. Sir Charles's solution: Future scientists ought to read books, and more important, other students should receive at least the rudiments of a scientific education. I first read this lecture-essay for a Nat Sci course in my freshman year, and at the time I wanted to say to this world authority, "So what's new, boobala...
...Thoreau was a natural scientist as well as a machine-breaker and Henry Miller, though he studied (on his own) enough science to pass ten Nat Sci courses still passionately wanted to dynamite the whole industrial face of Brooklyn and let the splinters fall into the polluted Hudson River. Familiarity didn't breed anything but contempt...
19th century portrait photography, opening about April 25 (Honestly, that's what the publicity office said). The exhibit was put together by students in Fine Arts 20, rumored the easiest course in the University since the demise of Nat Sci 27. The exhibitors must be devoted to put in the extra work--should be very good, if it ever opens...
...SHAME that more people aren't going to see Zardoz. Perhaps homosexual rape and man's battle against nature ring more resonantly than sci-fi satire in the vacuous American psyche: No other hypothesis can account for the low popularity of John Boorman's latest film, which is almost as exciting and far more provocative than the same director's excellent and well-received Deliverance...