Word: whole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...learned my final lesson from a young gentleman named Freddy, a 4 ft. 8 in. bruiser. In our school playground, with what seemed like the whole school watching, he taught me I wasn't a fighter. The cause of our battle has long since been forgotten (at least by me--Freddy, who got into rows like this almost every day, has probably forgotten, too) but the humiliation of my disfigurement--just a bloody nose, really--lives with me today...
...earlier life Star Trek was produced for $186,000 per show. Stars were holes punched in black paper, the crew was beamed in and out of the ship with simple light tricks, and the instrument boards were plywood. Whole shows were done on one set to save money. "I'd have blown my whole budget landing that big mother of a ship each week," Roddenberry says. These days he has a problem of affluence: how to update and add the newest wrinkles in special effects without losing "the elements that really count...
...life of Van Gogh. Both actors are puzzled by the Star Trek phenomenon. "Frankly, I can't get a grip on what has happened," says Shatner. "I'll see a 60-year-old grandmother holding a six-year-old child, and both are fans. The whole thing has an air of unreality...
...film's cast is both talented and sexy, but Handkerchiefs is a director's movie. Blier consistently conquers the challenges of mood and texture set up by his script, weaving disparate elements into a ripe, dreamlike whole. The film opens in the slapstick manner of a cartoon, then evolves seamlessly into a bucolic Renoir romance. In the second half, Blier stages chase scenes, a benign car crash and a farcical kidnaping-the larky stuff of American screwball comedy. The film's stylized denouement, shot around a wintry mansion, is a surrealist's spooky intimation of tragedy...
...acoustic bass solo that is more a technical coup than a creative improvisation. His sheer enthusiasm makes the cut listenable despite serious intonation problems. Corea begins the show's finale with a 17 minute piano solo. His playing is so damned interesting that he very nearly carries off this whole venture by himself, and here, on his own, he imaginatively probes his Spanish roots and builds to the concert's climax...