Word: medium
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There are only three Latin American leaders with any sort of audience outside their own country: Fidel Castro, but he has somehow become slightly old-hat, either as a menace or an inspiration; Luis Echeverria of Mexico, presiding over a dynamic entrepreneurial economy while talking a medium-left, aggressively Third World line; and one South American, the impressive Carlos Andres Perez of Venezuela. Perez heads one of the only two working democracies in South America (Colombia is the other), and he has oil, 2.4 million bbl. a day. He is not self-righteous about his country's democracy...
Handsome, medium height, slender, Brooks Brothers glen plaid suit, blue shirt with a button-down collar, wing-tip shoes, a slight...
...Powell, 29, an Anglican. For the Virgin Mary, the Roman Catholic director settled on Argentine-born Olivia Hussey, 23, who first starred in Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet eight years ago. Her religious preferences? "This may sound a bit far out," she says, "but two years ago a medium told me that I had been the Virgin Mary in a previous life...
...such routines Bob & Ray have created over the years. As a book, it is a little underfurnished. There is no commentary, no analysis, only the bare scripts ac companied by a few photos. Yet it escapes nonbook status, thanks to the peculiarly literary nature of Bob & Ray's medium. From Fred Allen's 1954 Tread mill to Oblivion to the recent multi-volume compilations of the BBC's Goon Show, reprinted radio routines have proved surprisingly readable, and for sound reason. Alone among comedy forms, they celebrate the primacy of the word...
...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 warrior, fleeing his opponents through time travel; and an excellent script for Star Trek, "A City...