Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite its title, the mistake in Failing doesn't become apparent until the end. This new play by Guy Gallo (winner of the 1977 Anderson Prize for Playwriting at Harvard) and directed by visiting director Lester W. Thompson, is about an increasingly frail scholar who, with the help of an increasingly confused young man, is trying to discover why a plot, planned many years ago, went wrong. Together, they are writing the history of a friend of the scholar who had planned to assassinate Hitler but never did. Though I won't give away the end, I will hint that...
...most aggressive states is Illinois. Its film board has attracted six major productions this year, including The Fury, a Fox $6 million spy thriller starring Kirk Douglas. Governor James Thompson lent a state helicopter to the crew to scout locations, waived permits to allow equipment to be hauled across state lines and persuaded the owners of a Lake Forest estate to allow filming in their home. When Director Robert Altman was filming A Wedding, for 20th Century-Fox distribution (the movie stars Mia Farrow and Geraldine Chaplin), Thompson declared a Robert Altman Week and held a big bash...
...became reclusive, paranoid. He immured himself among roomfuls of flamboyant furniture in Graceland. He took up karate, amassed a vast collection of guns and police badges and, according to the trio of tattletale bodyguards, would travel not only with a brace of handguns but such heavy armaments as a Thompson submachine gun and an M-16 rifle...
...committee selected the proposals submitted by Boston Urban Associates--The Architects' Collaborative of Boston and Cambridge, the Cambridge Carbon Co./Benjamin Thompson Associates of Cambridge, and The Carpenter and Co./Cambridge Seven Associates...
...could be. Astronomers generally theorize that stars and the planets that orbit them condense out of spiraling discs that are formed out of clouds of interstellar material. Thompson and Erickson believe MWC 349 is going through just such a process now. They think the star, which may be little more than 10,000 years old (the sun has been around about 5 billion years), is still developing. Some planets may have formed beyond the edge of MWC 349's luminous disc. They also believe more planets could form, closer to the star, as the disc condenses and cools...