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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nice special effects. There is no moral dilemma, no alienation, no analysis of post-industrial society, and very little sex. The plot is unoriginal; the acting unspectacular. If you go to see it, go to see what talented Douglas Trumbal, the special effects person, thinks extraterrestrial creatures and their space ships ought to look like. And go for escape. Moviegoers who have always found sci-fi flics somewhat witless will probably feel the same about this one, while those who have traditionally been awed by anything faintly supernatural are sure to get their money's worth...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: A Close Encounter of an Overblown Kind | 1/6/1978 | See Source »

...visitors. The expert, which his amazing conjectural powers, has a hunch that this tune (now played incessantly on Boston radio stations) is a musical "hello" from the aliens. He convinces his colleagues at an international UFO conference to support a project to send the four-note tune into outer space via radio telescope...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: A Close Encounter of an Overblown Kind | 1/6/1978 | See Source »

...movie is worth anything, it is because of a spectacular finale with some impressive special effects. Fortunately, the last 15 minutes of the movie will disappoint few people. The aliens arrive in a huge dazzling spacecraft as large as the mountain it lands next to. Several auxilliary space ships with adjunct paraphernalia will satisfy the craving of any sci-fi fan. The creatures return all the individualb that they had abducted earlier, including the boy (who became quite enamoured with the aliens), and, to top it off, the aliens make an appearance in the flesh, so to speak...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: A Close Encounter of an Overblown Kind | 1/6/1978 | See Source »

Though the atrium is being built for use by employees in the 54,000 square feet of office space the project will create, the garden will be open to the public. Zum Zum and Chez Dreyfus have closed, and Woolworth's will shut down on January...

Author: By Jeffrey L. Saver, | Title: Stores, Atrium Planned For Woolworth's Site | 1/5/1978 | See Source »

DiGiovanni, who owns the land on which the complex will be built, said Woolworth's had been renting the space at an unusually low price and asked "Goddammit, why should I be forced to, in effect, subsidize a billion dollar company...

Author: By Jeffrey L. Saver, | Title: Stores, Atrium Planned For Woolworth's Site | 1/5/1978 | See Source »

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