Word: station
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the entire eight hours he was kept at the police station yesterday, Qoboza was forced to remain standing. Qoboza, who suffers from high blood pressure, visited his doctor soon after his release, the Times said...
Appearing for the screening of his latest film. "The Phantom of the Open Hearth" at television station WGBH in Boston, Shepherd discussed "Phantom." which he wrote, co-directed, and narrated...
...that seems reasonable enough. But another beneficiary is a Utah service-station operator named Melvin Dummar, who claims that he found a thin, raggedly dressed old man sprawled alongside a remote desert road in southern Nevada one night in 1968 and drove the old fellow back to Las Vegas. Dummar says that when his passenger got out, he claimed that he was Howard Hughes and borrowed 250 from...
From Boston to Berkeley and at as sorted points in between, a Soviet sci-fi movie called Solaris has been gathering momentum as the latest cult film. Based on a novel by the Polish author Stanislaw Lem, Solaris has to do with mysterious goings on at a space station, staffed originally by a crew of 85, which has been drastically depleted under sinister circumstances. By the time a psychologist named Kelvin (Donatis Banionis) comes aboard, the station is populated by two disturbed scientists and a host of phantoms, including a dwarf and a nubile young girl in a blue nightie...
...station hovers over the yellow, oozing sea of the planet Solaris. In retaliation for radiation bombardments from the station, the sentient sea creates figures from the spacemen's sub conscious and bounces them back up to the station to haunt the inhabitants and drive them to suicide. Not long after his arrival, Kelvin receives a spectral visitor of his own: his exwife, who killed herself back on earth years before. Kelvin is immediately smitten by a lethal mixture of love and guilt, and his mission - and the fate of the space station - is imperiled...