Word: whose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Perhaps inspired by publicity over the operation, a suspected Puerto Rican terrorist, whose hands were mangled in an explosion, last week sued New York authorities for $1.2 million. He accused the police of confiscating his fingers as evidence, rather than taking them to a hospital for reattachment...
...work, however, the ratings were mediocre, and Star Trek was canceled after three years. The Trekkie phenomenon did not begin until the series went into syndication, and almost a decade later it shows no signs of abating. A Star Trek directory lists 19 pages of fan clubs, including some whose only members are grandmothers and others that concern themselves with the show's most minor characters, such as Mr. Spock's bride, who has had all of five lines. More than 50 books, not counting graduate theses, have been written, and a Detroit station has been running...
Just how a new version of an old, if farsighted, television series will be treated at the box office next Christmas is also a puzzling question. Despite the immense success of Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, science-fiction movies are often a fragile film commodity whose only sure audiences are cult enthusiasts. To make a profit, Star Trek must reach out far beyond them. Monsters aside, that may be the most difficult enterprise confronting the creators of the starship Enterprise...
...cell, what actually happened once occurs again in flashbacks. It all starts with pigeons, whose habits and instincts seem so much more exotic to Birdy and Al than the drab, Depression-ridden lives of their families. When Birdy falls 100 ft. off a gas tower in pursuit of more birds ("the first time I flew") and miraculously survives, he is grounded by his parents but allowed to keep a canary in his room. Al drifts away, increasingly preoccupied with high school sports and girls. For the sake of appearances, Birdy makes an effort to crank up similar interests...
...George, let us drink together, in our eyes the wildfires of centuries glow. Each sister is raped by her own brother, and nobody knows whose brother...