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SEVERAL months ago, Felipe Herba was speculating grimly about the fate of his then-uncompleted I'm A Stranger Here Myself: it seemed the actors hated him and Herba couldn't locate them to finish shooting. More recently, the lovely and admirable star of Lady Jane Talks to the Director, Jane Manopoli, told me that her experience in film-making had been nerve-wracking--she didn't know what she was doing and director Peter Coonradt kept changing his mind...
...Kubrick, this dehumanization is more than the result of the undefined force exerted by the monolith and proves a direct consequence of advanced technology. Kubrick is no stranger to the subject: The Killing and Lolita both involve man's self-expression through the automobile; Spartacus's defeat comes because he is not adequately prepared to meet the advanced military technology of the Roman army; Dr. Strangelove, of course, contains a running motif of machines assuming human characteristics (the machine sexuality of its opening titles) while humans become machinelike, a theme carried further in 2001. The central portion...
...earth is no stranger to disappearances of the magnetic field. Perhaps nine times in the past 4,000,000 years, geologic evidence shows, the field has mysteriously reversed. During these reversals the strength of the field gradually wanes, reaches a minimum, and then begins building up again in the opposite direction, resulting in a switch of the north and south magnetic poles. Exactly what will happen this time, McDonald and Gunst are not prepared to say. In the 700,000 years since the last reversal, most of the direct evidence of physical and biological changes that may have occurred...
Four Myths. The heart of the classic western, says Fiedler, lies in the encounter between White Man and Red Man, "that utter stranger for whom our New World is an Old Home." In the model western, the meeting either changes the White Man into the kind of cultural half-breed typified by James Fenimore Cooper's Natty Bumppo, or results in the destruction of the Indian...
GLIMPSE OF A STRANGER by Joe David Brown. 279 pages. Morrow...