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...politics of students has become more mainstream, the likelihood that they will form their own political organization has declined. And after all, when students here have the choice between getting a job with a candidate bound for the presidency or trying to get someone elected to the city council, there's very little doubt about which way they will turn...
...Carlos de Borbon. Franco chose Juan Carlos to be his successor in 1969 to ensure "political continuity and stability." And it's good news that the future king--Spain's first monarch since 1931--has indicated that he's interested in bringing Spain into the European political and economical mainstream, if only because most European countries will not accept Spain until it changes its political system. But Juan Carlos has no real power base for this move and Spain's political climate under his leadership will not necessarily mean that major reforms will be made...
...GREAT DEAL of highly respected science fiction that has made its way into mainstream culture would also fare poorly on film, including "classics" like Frank Herbert's Dune and Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land. (How would you portray "groking?" Who would accept a giant sandworm in a serious film?) Some of the finest science fiction on film was specifically written for that medium. Ironically, Ellison himself is responsible for some of the better television screenplays: "Soldier" on Rod Sterling's Twilight Zone, a chilling preview of a war-wracked future through the eyes of a genetically engineered...
...Sadly, mainstream movie producers aren't so willing to gamble with original science fiction screenplays, however, preferring to adapt novels and short stories. So until the Ellisons and Herberts are encouraged to create for film, there will be dog days for science fiction on the screen...
...sure like to get my hands on her, you know, for four of five hours of tape. But in general I don't, because the way I want to do it now is that to do something I want to do, not something that necessarily falls within mainstream journalism, whatver that...