Word: androids
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...writers have become savvy about inflaming the bidding passions of the big studios. Last month about 20 producers and studio bosses received packages containing black alarm clocks and the cryptic message "The Ticking Man Is Coming." The note described a screenplay by Manny Coto and Brian ( Helgeland about an android with a nuclear bomb implanted in its head. The next day producer Larry Gordon bought The Ticking Man for $1.2 million...
...looked like. Pynchon, by contrast, somehow had the foresight to hide from the beginning; the only photographs of him in circulation date from his late adolescence. As a result, he resembles, in his freedom, an apparition he includes in Vineland, namely " 'Chuck,' the world's most invisible robot," an android that operates on an erratic airline between Los Angeles and Honolulu. "How invisible," the plane's p.a. system announces, "you might wonder, is 'Chuck'? Well, he's been walking around among you, all through this whole flight! Yes, and now he could be right next...