Word: strangers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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STEVENS STARED at his typewriter; nothing happened. This was fairly unusual, and even stranger since the last time he had been at a typewriter, he had written his entire thesis--92 pages--in 72 hours...
...that's the last line in the book, isn't it? There's something I did on this earth. That's why I'm here on this earth. Here to do what? To save lives. Save a baby, breathe life into a dying stranger, black or white...
Janos and Correspondent Patricia Delaney then teamed up to interview Paramount President Frank Yablans and Production Head Robert Evans. A former speechwriter for Lyndon Johnson, Janos is no stranger to hyperbole. But even he was amazed by Paramount's dazzling promotional acrobatics. "We're in the business of making magic," Yablans told him. Our case study of Hollywood goes behind the cameras this week to examine the mechanics-and the hazards-of that claim...
...even stranger flight of fancy is Berg's courtship of Libyan Strongman Gaddafi. Last spring, the Mo Letters began to talk about "godly socialism" and to describe Gaddafi as the savior who will ignite the young and rescue them from those twin sources of evil, godless Communism and American materialism. The Moslem leader, in return, has commended the C.O.G. on Libyan radio and has invited a son and daughter of Berg to visit him in Tripoli...
...compact and compelling semidocumentary. The reader meets the old and the young of the village, learns that much of the tribe's food is customarily spread with a kind of butter called gleena, made from slow-boiled candlefish, and is convinced that the elders mysteriously know whenever a stranger is coming. The Book of Common Prayer and Indian rituals reinforce each other as Mark helps the Kwakiutls transfer their tribal dead from a dilapidated tree-house burial site to newly hallowed ground...