Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Torey Stanley...
...DIED. Stanley ("Bucky") Harris, 81, member of baseball's Hall of Fame who managed five major league teams during his 29-year career; of Parkinson's disease; in Bethesda, Md. After playing second base for the Washington Senators, Harris became the "boy manager" of the team at age 27 and led them to the 1924 World Series title. After that the gentlemanly pilot had a flurry of failures, but in 1947 he guided the Yankees to the world championship...
...happy. More important, Close Encounters offers proof, if any were needed, that Spielberg's reputation is no accident. His new movie is richer and more ambitious than Jaws, and it reaches the viewer at a far more profound level than Star Wars. The film is not perfect, but, like Stanley Kubrick's similar (if far chillier) 2001: A Space Odyssey, it uses science fiction thrills to seduce the audience into looking at the cosmos metaphysically. Close Encounters is, moreover, its creator's highly personal statement about mankind's next leap forward...
...giant mother ship and the extraterrestrial creatures are meant to look alien and so formless that the imagination is forced to fill in the details. "We went for a style that is nebulous but with brilliant light," explains Special Effects Chief Douglas Trumbull, who also created the effects of Stanley Kubrick's 2001. "In a way, it's going back to the old radio concept of setting off people's imagination. It's a way of generating something in the eye of the beholder...
...Stanley Flink, Yale's director of public information, said yesterday, "The job freeze is to slow things down fast, while we search for equilibrium of our income versus expenses." Flink added, "This is, of course, a temporary move but it is firm and effective...