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Deathtrap is not the ingenious successor to Sleuth that Levin obviously wanted to write, but a desperate imitation of it. The same sorts of turn-arounds preponderate, and the playwright-protagonist, Sidney Bruhl (John Wood), as unscrupled as Wyke when it comes to murder, speaks in similarly sardonic conceits. But Levin, although he tries hard, has neither Shaffer's command of language nor his ability to make each epigram peculiarly illustrative of some aspect of character; Levin uses witticisms to fill pauses. To be fair, the script contains many very funny lines--assorted theater jokes, ESP jokes...
...runs for the presidency in 1980, as many expect, California Governor Jerry Brown will be ready with his own energy program. Among other things, the $500 million Brown plan for California, unveiled after New Year's, proposes using windmills, wood chips, walnut shells, rice hulls, solar panels, coal gasification and hot water as alternatives to fossil fuels. Says Brown: "Americans seem to be getting less inventive. I'm going to try to stimulate things the best I can through energy innovation...
...industry, which uses hot-water springs to create steam. Among Brown's more unusual ideas for spending the remaining $100 million: $4 million for the installation of a dozen giant windmills to generate electricity in windy mountain passes; up to $3 million for the use of agricultural wastes-wood chips, walnut shells and maybe rice hulls-to heat and cool the state capitol and other government buildings. The wastes are baked until they emit organic gas, which is then collected and burned as fuel...
...catching costumes. A swim through a million pounds of warm mud in a collapsing New York City subway. Those are some of the drawbacks to playing the Soviet astrophysicist heroine of Meteor, a $16 million disaster film. For Natalie Wood, who slipped into a comfy pants outfit and posed for a picture session off the Hollywood set, the good news is that she was forced to improve her Russian for the role. Nee Natasha Za-charenko, the daughter of Russian immigrants to San Francisco, she used to speak her mother's tongue "with the sophistication of a ten-year...
...marriage of technology and sprightly aesthetics. Explains Zakas: "Probably the biggest single element has been the development of urethane foam. Before foam, you had to have springs, and they are a real hassle." The new supergrip glues have also been a boon to the basement Sheraton: they will hold wood joints together more durably than the most exquisite doweling. Easy-to-handle materials such as Masonite, plywood and Plexiglas have simplified furniture construction. To Zakas, one of the most important technical innovations of all is the staple gun, which can be used for upholstery by tacking the material over foam...