Word: sequel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problem, of course, is that the race appeared to be over before it even started. No sooner had Koch dispatched Cuomo in the runoff--a sequel to his startling victory in the seven-person general primary early in the month--than the press had dubbed him heir apparent to that shaky framework of bureaucratic cobwebs and dubious city bonds that is the New York municipal government. New Yorkers had rebuked the Beame administration, the papers asserted, and wanted to move on to the brand of humane but firm fiscal conservatism that Koch promised. The Congressman, not one to decline...
...real-life figure; if he did not exist, a novelist could scarcely invent him. As it happens, Big Daddy has already inspired what amounts to a budding literary subgenre. In Britain, two small satirical paperbacks by Punch Columnist Alan Coren, The Collected Bulletins of President Idi Amin and its sequel, The Further Bulletins etc., have sold 750,000 copies. Within the past year, at least four fictional thrillers (Target Amin, The Killing of Idi Amin, Excellency and Crossfire) and a play (For the West, by Michael Hastings), dealing either with Amin or with Amin-like dictators, have appeared in London...
...family as Decca, who scratched hammers and sickles on the windowpanes of her stately home with her diamond ring before running off to the Spanish Civil War at the age of 19 with a nephew of Sir Winston Churchill's. In A Fine Old Conflict, a sequel to her earlier memoir, Daughters and Rebels, Decca promises to explain why she in particular and Mitford sisters in general have behaved so-well, Mitfordly...
With Star Wars fast becoming the biggest moneymaker ever (box office receipts are $12 million a week), the movie industry is wasting no time jumping onto the spacewagon. 20th Century-Fox is already plotting its first Star Wars sequel, and other film makers are rushing to make their own sci-fi flicks before the fad wears thin. Judging from some of their plans, that may not take too long...
...1950s regularly won Academy Awards for their special effects. Not only are Pal pictures like The War of the Worlds (1953) and When Worlds Collide (1951) being rereleased, but the latter is about to be remade by Director John Frankenheimer. Pal himself, now 69, is at work writing a sequel to his 1961 film The Time Machine. Says he: "Star Wars has proved again that a special effect is as big a star as any in the world." For now, anyway...