Word: steven
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...example, Jerome Kagan, Professor of Developmental Psychology, and J. Steven Reznik, a research assistant in the department, are currently running an experiment in the psychology department monitoring infants' heartbeats, which would be impossible without the use of the PDP 11/44 located in William James...
...Nature, think again. The flurry of sociobiological literature which followed the publication of Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning book has since died down, it seems, and the pendulum might just be swinging the other way Richard Lewontin's new book. Not in Our Genes--which he co-authored with Steven Rose and Leon Kamin--presents the other side of the debate over genetic determinism...
...might get an argument on that description from Steven Spielberg, the fabulator of that alltime blockbuster and-surprise!-an executive producer of Gremlins. "If I thought this movie was close to E. T.," he claims, "I probably wouldn't have become associated with it." As it happens, there are plenty of similarities in plot and tone between E.T. and Gremlins: a sweet, lonely boy in a matriarchal family in a near idyllic small town meets a gentle, otherworldly creature who becomes his charge and his protector. But these comparisons are mainly for exegetes and archaeologists, for by mid-film...
...imagination stoked by a young lifetime of reading Marvel Comic books, watching old Universal horror movies and collecting clay models of monsters, Columbus set to exorcising his tiny demons in a screenplay. By the end of that year, his script had found its way to the desk of Steven Spielberg...
Through sweat and ingenuity, Walas and Dante and Producer Michael Finnell finished Gremlins in about 23 weeks at an inexpensive $11 million. Spielberg, occupied at the time with Indiana Jones in London, spent little time on the set. Recalls Dante: "Steven said to me, 'It's your movie, go make it,' and we went ahead and made it. We got it down to about a two-hour cut and showed it to him. He said, 'It's your greatest work.' And I said, 'Yeah, but is it any good...