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Author-Screenwriter William Goldman, 51, has been around long enough to remember the bad old image of his trade. He began his career in 1957 as a writer of respectable fiction, far from the siren song of show business, and has published twelve novels. But he also labored successfully in Hollywood (eleven credits) during the period when movies became films, directors auteurs and screenplays the subjects of scholarly monographs. In discussing his own work for the people "Out There," he neither cringes nor crows: "In terms of authority, screenwriters rank somewhere between the man who guards the studio gate...
...controlled the puck in the corner of the rink nearest to the Crimson crowd until the siren sounded and a horde of jubilant teammates mobbed him, so that the fans had a close-up view of the first Harvard hockey team to celebrate an ECAC title in 12 years...
...fans if was the reward for suffering through the agonizing near misses of recent years, and theirs was the only section of the Garden which hadn't cleared out by the final siren. As a maroon and gold flag was waved in the balcony seats. Eagle senior Billy Switaj who stopped 31 Northeastern shots in the game, accepted his Eberly Trophy as the tourney's best goalie and freshman winger Bob Sweeney, who scored two goals last night and set up the typing and winning goals last week against Harvard was named...
Here's the pitch: a series featuring a psychologist from academe who hears the siren song of Hollywood. Point of view? He treats celebrities, making them feel better about themselves and all of us feel better about ourselves. Who to star? Why, he's already on the tube. Tom Cottle. So sensitive. So caring. So earnest. He'll charm the pants off you. And those eyes! So limpid, so seductive...
...shrunk the murky green liquid in one lagoon from 200 million gal. to 55 million gal. The water, however, is still so polluted it occasionally kills birds. To scare them off, the Army in 1976 put flashing lights on barges and ringed the lake with Zong guns, which make siren and gunshot noises. It also built a giant barricade of bentonite slurry, 6,700 ft. long with a foundation 35 ft. deep, to help purify the water. But in the late 1970s two more contaminated underground water ways were discovered, both of them polluted by chemical agents...