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...called Strangers; in her entire career she has probably never given a better or more poignant performance. Last month she played a poor woman who befriends a black teen-ager in another CBS special, the unfortunately titled White Mama; next week she will be seen in a Disney sci-fi thriller, The Watcher in the Woods. And if The Thorn Birds is ever made, she will probably play Mary Carson, a rich Australian dowager...
Writing while bringing up children, Le Guin sold her first short story when she was 30 and then began building a stellar reputation among sci-fi fans; her 1969 novel The Left Hand of Darkness won both a Hugo and a Nebula, science fiction's most prestigious awards. The Farthest Shore (1972) received a National Book Award. As the youngsters went off to school, the author fell into a writing schedule that she still maintains. She goes to her writing room in the house each morning at 9 and sits there for at least four hours, whether ideas...
...mind, the fantasies of castration and necrophilia and technology gone amok. The updated Gothicism, hip drugginess and black humor of Naked Lunch established Burroughs' audience, composed mostly of young people. Norman Mailer compared reading Burroughs to "being in a room where three radios, two television sets, stereo hi-fi, a pornographic movie, and two automatic dishwashers are working at once." John Clellon Holmes called Burroughs' work "1984 written by W.C. Fields...
...negotiating now with many companies about sponsoring the show, and I hope to have things definitely worked out by mid-February so we can finalize booking the band." Urfirer said yesterday. He has consulted such companies as Pepsi Cola, Coca Cola, Cott Beverages, Canada Dry, Tech Hi-Fi, McDonalds's and E.F. Hutton. Urfirer said he hopes to find a single backer for the concert, but may resort to multiple underwriters to divide the expenses...
...about as much steel as all of Europe combined or as much as the United States, but in much more modern facilities. It was producing more ship-building tonnage than Europe and the United States combined. Its industries dominated the world in fields as diverse as watches, hi-fi equipment, television, ceramics, motor bikes, and pianos. By the end of the 1970s, the Japanese total industrial output was about three-quarters of that of the United States, with half the population or about one and one-half times as much industrial output per person as in the United States...