Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TIME, Dec. 16), Jim MacLaine had left his wife and child in a dreary English town for a stroll down the glory road. He wanted to learn guitar and get himself into the palmy world of rock 'n' roll. In Stardust, MacLaine finds success -more of it than he bargained for or can handle...
MacLaine (played with charm and chill by David Essex, himself a British pop star) goes a long way on a modest talent. Some of his success is sheer luck; most can be traced to the general craziness of the times, when a boy from the north could become a crown prince on the strength of one good tune or two. Stardust picks up in 1964, and MacLaine and his group, the Stray Cats, seem modeled on the Beatles. They jump from being a bunch of good-time lads playing dungeons in Liverpool to the very top of the pops...
...even be considered when talking about The Teeth of Mons Herbers, which was sui generis in a way MAM isn't and doesn't try to be. But LaZebnik's next work--based on the assassination of James A. Garfield by a disgruntled office-seeker--might offer proof that success hasn't spoiled him. His talent is too original for us to be able to afford to lose...
...issuing a curt, 110-word tentative retraction that avoided all mention of Rosenfeld or their own difficulties, and promising to keep working to get active "preps" of transfer factor during the next three months. They are still working to get a positive "take," though they have met with no success and have moved the focus of their research elsewhere. The chances of vindicating Rosenfeld and justifying two years of work grow dimmer...
...traditional values, that may be because the organization of scientific research and development in this country isn't exactly logical. Some Harvard administrators attributed his "ill logic" in the recommendations forgeries to the pressures of the pre-med syndrome; some of his friends chalked it up to a success-oriented family background; some of his teachers and fellow students in the Bio Labs, and even Rosenfeld himself, blamed the cumulative effect of spending endless hours in the laboratory and classroom...