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* In Man Plus ( 1976 ) by Frederik Pohl, an astronaut is transformed into a cyborg capable of living on Mars.
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In the novel Man Plus by Frederick Pohl, an able-bodied astronaut, Roger Torraway, is surgically altered in order to augment his fragile human body and allow him to function in the harsh climate of Mars.
* Chip Hop ( rap ) artist MC Plus + refers to the Barber paradox in his song " Man Vs Machine " from the album Chip Hop.
Examples: William Faulkner in A Rose for Emily ( Faulkner was an avid experimenter in using unusual points of view-see his Spotted Horses, told in third person plural ); Frank B. Gilbreth and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey in Cheaper By the Dozen ; Frederik Pohl in Man Plus ; and more recently, Jeffrey Eugenides in his novel The Virgin Suicides and Joshua Ferris in Then We Came to the End.
* Namco releases World Stadium, Assault, which is the first game to use sprite scaling and massive sprite rotation, Assault Plus, Berabow Man, Marchen Maze, Bakutotsu Kijuutei, which is the sequel to Baraduke, Ordyne, Metal Hawk, World Court, Splatterhouse, which is the first game to get a parental advisory disclaimer, Mirai Ninja, Face Off and Phelios.
Luggage, Spencer & Co ( 40, 000 sq ft on the ground, first and second floors ), Timex Watch Showroom, Swatch, Cookie Man, BPL ( Profx ), Color Plus, Navigator, Witco, Pantaloons ( 26, 000 sq ft ), Arrow, Lee, Music World, Food World, HSBC, ABN AMRO, American Express, Citibank ( 65, 000 sq ft in second and third phases ), First Flight and Du Bowl ( 16, 000 sq ft ).
To facilitate this, the American government begins a cyborg program to create a being capable of surviving the harsh Martian environment: Man Plus.
" Spider Robinson found Man Plus to be " tight, suspenseful, at times gruesomely fascinating ," but faulted it for " one dumptruck-sized hole " in its plotting.
Man Plus also makes much of the ( assumed, rather than argued ) difficulty of separating the way one thinks from what one is, and vice versa: Roger Torraway's new artificial body strongly affects how he interacts with the world around him.
In 2004, GRN ruled that it was not clear that The Man Show, broadcast on TV4 Plus, was clearly satirical in intent.
Man and 1976
Major successes include Absurd Person Singular ( 1975 ), The Norman Conquests trilogy ( 1973 ), Bedroom Farce ( 1975 ), Just Between Ourselves ( 1976 ), A Chorus of Disapproval ( 1984 ), Woman in Mind ( 1985 ), A Small Family Business ( 1987 ), Man Of The Moment ( 1988 ), House & Garden ( 1999 ) and Private Fears in Public Places ( 2004 ).
During 1976, Grant wrote her first song (" Mountain Man "), performed in public for the first time — at Harpeth Hall School — the all-girls school she attended, recorded a demo tape for her parents with church youth-leader Brown Bannister, then later when Bannister was dubbing a copy of the tape, Chris Christian, the owner of the recording studio, heard the demo and called Word Records.
Returning to television, he worked with Susan Blakely on Rich Man, Poor Man, a highly successful television miniseries in 1976.
In 1976, he was honored with two Emmy Award nominations, one for Outstanding Lead Actor for a Single Appearance in Drama or Comedy for The Streets of San Francisco and the other for Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actor in Comedy or Drama Series for Rich Man, Poor Man.
This novel was adapted into a TV series, The Six Million Dollar Man, in 1973, and a spin-off, The Bionic Woman in 1976.
In 1976 he earned acclaim for his first major film role, portraying Thomas Jerome Newton, an alien from a dying planet, in The Man Who Fell to Earth, directed by Nic Roeg.
In the 2008 film August, directed by Austin Chick, he played a supporting role as Ogilvie, alongside Josh Hartnett and Rip Torn, with whom he had worked in 1976 for The Man Who Fell to Earth.
" Secret Agent Man " had been recorded first in 1974 for Devo's first film and performed live as early as 1976.
" Three notable texts of this period are Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness ( 1969 ), Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time ( 1976 ) and Joanna Russ ' The Female Man ( 1970 ).
By the 1970s some Native American film roles began to show more complexity, such as those in Little Big Man ( 1970 ), Billy Jack ( 1971 ), and The Outlaw Josey Wales ( 1976 ), which depicted Native Americans in minor supporting roles.
* April 3 – The Eurovision Song Contest 1976 is won by Brotherhood of Man, representing the United Kingdom, with their song Save Your Kisses for Me.
She appeared in the 1975 screen adaptation of the Hans Fallada novel, Every Man Dies Alone directed by Alfred Vohrer, released in English as Everyone Dies Alone in 1976 and for which she won an award for best actress at the International Film Festival in Carlsbad, then in Czechoslovakia.
In June 1970, The XYY Man was published — the first of seven Kenneth Royce spy novels whose fictional tall, intelligent, nonviolent XYY hero was a reformed expert cat burglar recruited by British intelligence for dangerous assignments — and later adapted into a thirteen-episode British summer television series broadcast in 1976 and 1977.
Hoffman next starred in Marathon Man ( also 1976 ), a film based on William Goldman's novel of the same name, opposite Laurence Olivier and Roy Scheider.
The commercial station ITV had popular successes with Rising Damp ( 1974 – 78, sometimes called the best of all ITV sitcoms ), Man About the House ( 1973 – 76 ) and George and Mildred ( 1976 – 79 ).
In addition, each album would include an instrumental cut or more which would either be considered lite jazz ( Tomorrow 1976, Q 1977 Similin ' On Ya 1980 & Tokyo 1984 ) or Funk ( Thunder Thumbs & Lightning Licks 1976, Brother Man 1976, Mista Cool 1978 & Celebrations 1980 )
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