Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sounds like something thought up by Stanley Kubrick for the movie 2001. The silent central control room houses giant twin computers that send dozens of sleek, 80-m.p.h. silvery aluminum passenger trains slicking sibilantly into stations at intervals as close as 90 seconds. Each train has only one blue-jumpsuit-clad attendant, and he allows computers to run the controls except in the event of an emergency. Even tickets are sold (in amounts up to $20) by machine. The buyer inserts coins or bills; after an electronic eye scans them, the machine gives forth a credit-card-sized ticket. Thereafter...
...News was both proudly paternal and fiercely independent. When its aviation editor died the News kept sending his paycheck to his widow for nearly ten years, until their twin sons finished college. Nobody intimidated the News; when an advertiser once demanded a picture spread on his Christmas display window, the paper responded by running a friendly story on his chief competitor...
...list of environmental dirty words. The criticisms range from dehumanization of cities to changing of weather patterns. Only Washington, D.C., has won the fight against height; it bans any building more than 90 ft. tall. Almost every other major city continues to build gigantic skyscrapers-New York its twin-tower, 110-story World Trade Center, Chicago its 80-story Standard Oil Building. Perhaps the most interesting of all, and among the most controversial, is the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co.'s nearly completed headquarters in Boston...
...Mulligan has taken great care with his ten-year-old actors and they have two quite separate identities. With a little help from the other characters, who frequently call them by name--either Niles or Holland--the "bad" twin and the "good" twin are easily distinguished. The Udvarnokys play the twins with amazing unselfconsciousness. They consider themselves people, not cute objects-to-be-admired (as actors or as children). Their matter-of-fact acceptance of the increasingly frightening world around them contrasts with the histrionics of their grandmother (Uta Hagen). Many critics have complained of her overacting, but I liked...
...HITCHCOCK has many times observed and demonstrated, murder is always more frightening when it occurs on a sunny afternoon while life is proceeding apace around you. The twins continue to play in the barn and plan their magic show while around them person after person dies in horrible circumstances due to the actions of the "bad" twin. Their insufferable cousin, jumping in the hayloft, lands on a carefully placed pitchfork. Their invalid mother is pushed down the stairs in the middle of the night when no one but them is there is to see. By day they are such charming...