Word: sturgeon
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...Nelda A. Sturgeon Wilmington...
NINETY PER CENT of everything is crap," Theodore Sturgeon, the science fiction author, once observed, and that analysis certainly holds true for science fiction's third cousin, electronic music. With electronic music--and in particular with synthesizers--so many people working within the idiom are crass imitators of others' modest successes...
Roddenberry assembled a talented production crew, and sought out some of the best science fiction writers around, men like Theodore Sturgeon, Robert Bloch, Harlan Ellison, Norman Spinrad, instead of relying on the usual hacks who specialized in cop shows and dumb westerns. At a cost of $200,000 for each episode, Star Trek at least strove for excellence and intelligence, if it came up short sometimes...
...sits down with his four writers to work on new material. By 12:30 he is having lunch at the Hillcrest Country Club where he sits with other show business gentry. Groucho Marx and Al Jolson used to be regulars. Says Burns: "There was a time when not much sturgeon could be brought into California. But Jolson always had some in the kitchen anyway. So when he sat down, I would compliment him on what a great man he was and how the world was waiting for his comeback 'Have a little sturgeon...
...Sunshine Inc. has worked for two years to make caviar pearls of Davis-raised A. transmontanus eggs. One day last week the California consortium transformed the U.S. Senate's Mike Mansfield Room into a caviarteria. The guests enthusiastically downed 20 Ibs. of caviar and 30 Ibs. of smoked sturgeon as well as 70 bottles of California champagne. A caviar connoisseur from TIME, Correspondent Gregory Wierzynski, was on hand; on a scale of 1 to 10, he "rated the West Coast product at 8. The price? If you crave caviar, you shouldn't have...