Word: john
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...soul; he enters into it, becomes it. Clearly, the experiments of this modern mad scientist have got out of hand -and too far into himself. Can he return? This is a question whose application here can be debated and debunked by those familiar with the work of Dr. John Lilly, the behavioral scientist whose use of tank therapy prefigured Eddie's. But most moviegoers will be enthralled by the fiction in this dazzling piece of science fiction...
...FORMULA Directed by John Avildsen Screenplay by Steve Shagan
...terribly convoluted, but not especially interesting; John Avildsen's direction alternates between flatness and strain. Scott gives an imitation of his old force, but there is a lack of conviction in his playing that is, perhaps, understandable. If he is going to make this kind of film, he should learn from Brando how to take the money and hide out behind the makeup. As for Keller, she is just impossible, an actress whose monotony of tone dims everything she touches...
...trademark white suits and black string ties to sell franchised eateries serving chicken parts laced with a secret blend of herbs and spices and pressure-cooked for 12 min. In 1964 he sold the business for $2 million to Nashville Businessmen Jack Massey and John Y. Brown Jr., now Kentucky's Democratic Governor; seven years later they peddled the chain to Heublein Inc. for an estimated $287 million in stock. Sanders, who stayed on at KFC Corp. as a $125,000-a-year consultant, never lost his sizzle. On occasion he would tour a KFC franchise and, if dissatisfied...
Singer is not the only contemporary "serious" writer to have sought a small audience. Novelists and poets like John Updike, Randall Jarrell, Alison Lurie, John Gardner, Elizabeth Janeway and Ursula Le Guin have produced exemplary children's books. Of course, scholars and artists are not new to the libraries of kid lit. A generation ago, Essayist E.B. White composed his classics Stuart Little and Charlotte's Web, and Humorist James Thurber wrote The Thirteen Clocks, just as, a decade before, Oxford Don J.R.R. Tolkien had written The Hobbit, and before him, another Oxonian, Lewis Carroll, had produced...