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A fan of Philip K. Dick, author of " We Can Remember it For You Wholesale ," the short story upon which the film was based, Cronenberg related ( in the biography / overview of his work, Cronenberg on Cronenberg ) that his dissatisfaction with what he envisioned the film to be and what it ended up being pained him so greatly that for a time, he suffered a migraine just thinking about it, akin to a needle piercing his eye.
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fan and Philip
In the late 1940s, CBS chairman William S. Paley, a fan of The Adventures of Philip Marlowe radio serial, asked his programming chief, Hubell Robinson, to develop a hardboiled Western series, a show about a " Philip Marlowe of the Old West.
Lyrically the record touched on dystopian and sci-fi themes similar to those employed by authors such as Philip K. Dick, of whom Numan was a fan ( the opening lines of the song " Listen to the Sirens " are a direct lift from the title of Dick's book Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said ).
The electrically powered ceiling fan was invented in 1882 by Philip Diehl ; he had engineered the electric motor used in the first electrically powered Singer sewing machines, and in 1882 adapted that motor for use in a ceiling-mounted fan.
He loved the music of Brian Eno and Philip Glass, and was a fan of the punk performance artist Nina Hagen.
fan and K
J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, is a fan of Gilliam's work.
Così fan tutte, ossia La scuola degli amanti ( Thus Do They All, or The School For Lovers ) K. 588, is an Italian language opera buffa by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart first performed in 1790.
J. K. Rowling / Warner Brothers has sent cease-and-desist letters referencing " sexually explicit " writings on the web, ( Example cease and desist letters at Chilling Effects ), though Rowling approves the writing of fan fiction in general, posting links to fan fiction on her website and openly acknowledging slash fiction while maintaining that pairings such as those between Harry / Draco and Harry / Snape are non-canonical.
* Sonia K. Katyal, ' Performance, property, and the slashing of gender in fan fiction ,' in American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law, vol.
* Mozart, Così fan tutte, K. 588 ( selections ) ( Popp, Fassbaender, Krause ), Vienna Haydn Orchestra ( 1965 ), DECCA 433 066-2
In 1936, Maurice K. Hanson, a science fiction fan living in Nuneaton, founded a fanzine called Novae Terrae ( Latin for " new worlds ") for the local branch of the Science Fiction League.
J. K. Rowling has an open relationship with her fan base, and since 2004 periodically hands out a " fan site award " on her official web site.
The story is denoted as a " K / S " story — the designation for fan fiction stories that feature an explicitly sexual relationship between Kirk and Spock.
In the U. K. in 1995, limited editions of the Bunny could be found wearing the kit of Blackburn Rovers-of whom the Bunny was an avid fan following their Premier League Title success.
It was originally coined as a term to describe Kirk / Spock ( or " K / S "; sometimes spoken " Kirk-slash-Spock ", whence " Slash ") homosexual fan fiction.
For a time in the late 1970s and early 1980s, both " K / S " and " Slash " were used to describe such fan fiction, regardless of whether or not they were related to Star Trek.
The future All-American pitcher was born to baseball fan parents who chose names for each of their children that began names with " K ," a nod to the letter used as the scorecard designation for a strikeout.
* An excellent resource of links to Ma. K fan sites
In June 1976, the first Kirk / Spock dedicated fanzine appeared, but as the number of non-science fiction fans grew, within several years " relationship " stories became the dominant form of Star Trek fan fiction outside the K / S genre.
A fan has said of the pairing: " K / S has it all: friendship, relationship drama that gets resolved, enormous expressions of devotion through sacrifice, trust and commitment over a period of decades.
In most clocks it is a simple fan fly ( K ), a flat piece of sheet metal mounted on the fastest turning gear shaft.
In 1996, plans were made to construct the stadium in response to the need to expand Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium and convert it to a football-specific facility, the desire to move track and field events to a venue that was more fan and athlete friendly, and the need to construct an appropriate on-campus facility to house the varsity soccer program begun in 1994.
Aside from her passion, she loves reading ( her favorite authors include Stephan King, Mark Twain, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Austen, and J. K. Rowling ) and is a huge " Harry Potter " fan.
fan and .
I had for some time been hoping, in vain, for one of the dim figures to pass between the fan vents and myself.
This light did not penetrate very far back into the hall, and my eyes were hindered rather than aided by the dim daylight entering through the fan vents when I tried to pick out whatever might be lying, or squatting, on the floor below.
Both I and my feelings come up out of a chain of events that fan out into the past into sources that are ultimately very unlike the entity which I now am.
Once you become an avocado fan, you will look forward to the season each year with eager anticipation.
You'll foil them in droves, along with their pal humidity, by having and using a kitchen range exhaust fan, a bathroom ventilator for when you shower, and an outside vent for the clothes drier.
Common complaints included `` Mrs. Murphy '' leaving her windows open all the time, a fresh air fan, or the family was visiting `` Aunt Minnie '' with the house shut up but they still paid the same rate for oil.
After drying the sections under the fan, fixing in acetone, and drying at 37-degrees as in the indirect method, the sections were treated with conjugated Af or Af ( undiluted unless mentioned otherwise ) for 5 - 30 minutes.
1 ) Most of the legends that are created to fan the fires of patriotism are essentially propagandistic and are not folk legends at all.
Naturally, such scholarly facts are of little concern to the man trying to make money or fan patriotism by means of folklore.
This is an issue which boils down to a matter of opinion, depending on whether you're an American or National fan and anti or pro-Yankee.
She turned out to be a fan, too, of Margaret Bouton, the Gallery's associate curator of education.
`` Chicago And All That Jazz '' may have wound up satisfying neither the confirmed fan nor the inquisitive newcomer.
Whether fan of the Pagnol films or stage show, whether partial to music or not, you can't help but derive joy from this picture if you have a sense of humor and a heart.
Their props were two stepladders, a chair and a palm fan.
The `` peacock tail '' nozzle throws a giant fan of water 100 feet wide and 40 feet high.
Her book titles, changed by American publishers, for example Ten Little Niggers to Ten Little Indians, were kept the same across the Atlantic, after bushels of fan mail.
Longtime fan favorite LB Jessie Tuggle retired following 14 seasons in Atlanta.
From the beginning, Colangelo wanted to market the Diamondbacks to a statewide fan base and not limit fan appeal to Phoenix and its suburbs.
Steel-string guitars use different bracing systems from classical guitars, typically using X-bracing instead of fan bracing.
Its drivers are Tom Chilton, Andy Neate and Tom Onslow-Cole with Chilton's father Grahame being Aon's vice-chairman, who is a " huge fan " of motor racing.
For a rigid body rotating around an axis of symmetry ( e. g. the blades of a ceiling fan ), the angular momentum can be expressed as the product of the body's moment of inertia, I, ( i. e. a measure of an object's resistance to changes in its rotation rate ) and its angular velocity ω:
3.995 seconds.