Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...director who knows what to do with all that talent. Seltzer's version of Pirates boasts plenty of directorial business: There are the banners proclaiming "Death and Slaughter" and "Glory and the Grave," unfurled as the policemen prepare to combat the pirates; the purposeful delay in starting Major General Stanley's famous patter song ("I am the very model of a modern Major General"); the instantaneous characterization of the last policeman as a bumbler out of step with the rest. But more impressive is Seltzer's general handling of the cast--not only the leads, most of whom could...
...people who did not exist. In three wild weeks, Dirks raced around the country, confirmed the tipster's story, and told clients to get out of the stock. Equity declared bankruptcy, and 19 of its officers either pleaded guilty to fraud or were convicted of it. Former Chairman Stanley Goldblum is serving an eight-year sentence in a California federal prison...
...knows for sure how the gonococci acquired their disturbing new capability, but University of Washington Microbiologist Stanley Falkow, who in 1975 predicted the emergence of such a strain, thinks that it was through nature's own genetic engineering. He suggests that the gonococci incorporated bits of the master molecule DNA containing the genetic instructions for making the enzyme from other kinds of microbes that already have these genes...
...Director Stanley Kubrick has yet to show that he can actually direct actors--from a few of his films one gets the feeling he must treat them with the same disdain he harbors for the big bad world. Clockwork Orange (like Dr. Strangelove,) shines, though, because it accommodates both Kubrick's cerebral and perverse artsiness and a free-lance format for Malcolm MacDowell. MacDowell requires no coaching or handholding here; he does for amoral punkdom what the Bowery Boys never could. The union of these two visionary hard-guys still proves chilling, and no amount of humane breath could melt...
...first interview that he has given to discuss plans for his new Administration, Jimmy Carter talked with TIME Chief of Correspondents Murray Gart and Washington Correspondent Stanley Cloud...