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...Faraday and Company Dan Dailey is an ex-con who, after 28 years in a South American jail, is slated to battle future shock as well as his crooked quarry. ABC even has an ex-human: Lee Majors as The Six Million Dollar Man, rebuilt after a near-fatal plane crash into a cyborg (cybernetic organism, that is, with two legs, one arm and one eye that are nuclear-powered synthetics...
...Harvard baseball team is back, too. Last spring the herculean gladiators of the Eastern baseball world, who terrorized the entire Eastern collegiate seaboard with a fatal combination of hitting and invincibility and pitching finesse, who mechanically and mercilessly devoured every other college baseball team from Pennsylvania to New England (after an appetizer of Floridian spring vacation opponents), who scrambled, hustled, clawed and manipulated their way to 35 wins against only three setbacks in the course of the spring schedule, who lacerated each new opponent with the decisive and unalterable impact of a Watergate paper shredder, who achieved, succeeded, mastered...
...women. Henley had brought 15-year-old Rhonda Williams to Corll's house. She was strapped to a board face up (a boy was manacled to the same board face down). Corll, according to Henley, "was mad because I brought the chick over there." That led to their fatal argument. Afterward Henley protested, "I didn't go to bed with that girl...
...background of Dr. Ronald Glasser's chronicle of hospital life are other children with fatal, costly chronic diseases, like the four-year-old boy plagued by unsuccessful kidney transplants. Mary's father stirs up a campaign of timid, deferential parents against the doctors, who never explain...
...original book. Taylor made excellent use of the Panavision wide screens by means of some dramatic aerial photography that emphasized the breathtaking width of the Mississippi. But dramatic, breathtaking, and expensive photography cannot carry a narrative motion picture over its rough parts, and herein lies the picture's fatal problem...