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Last week's results, while they seemed promising, had a hurried, slapdash quality to them. The jury-rigged experiments were based largely on what researchers had seen in the popular press and copies of the sketchy initial paper by Pons and Fleischmann, which began circulating by fax machine almost at once. At Texas A&M, chemists reported they had measured between 60% and 80% more heat energy coming out of the experiment than had gone in. But they had to try the experiment five times before it worked. They did not even attempt to detect any neutrons being given...
...late Orson Welles was, in the nostalgic phrase, a star of stage, screen and radio. He was also one of those grand, self-inflating talents whose failures received almost as much attention as his successes. His long, attenuated career covered the spectrum, from classics to commercials. Old- timers still remember his controversial rejiggerings of Shakespeare and his War of the Worlds radio drama, which had many listeners believing New Jersey had been invaded by Martians. And, of course, every generation has embraced Citizen Kane, his brilliant 1941 film based on the life and times of press lord William Randolph Hearst...
Fabrication, contrivance and artifice were subjects he knew something about. "I discovered at the age of six," Welles once told an interviewer, "that almost everything in this world was phony, worked with mirrors." His 1973 movie F for Fake is about the ambiguity of artistic charlatanism and, says Brady, stands as Welles' most personal film...
...Stealth Mayor" Bradley keeps a low enough profile not to be associated with the city's problems. Unlike New York City's Mayor Ed Koch, who blurts out insults to someone nearly every day, the resolutely dull Bradley has said hardly anything memorable in almost 16 years in office. But the mayor is no accident in California politics. Like most public officials in this trend- making state, Bradley is part of a wave of certifiably boring, aggressively bland politicians. How else to account for Governor George Deukmejian, Senators Pete Wilson and Alan Cranston and others too unrecognizable to mention...
...politics can become only so boring before it ceases to exist at all. Last week Los Angeles held an election and almost no one came -- only 23% of the voters turned out. Bradley does not need charisma to attract money; the bankers and developers in Los Angeles have wallets as fat as Michael J. Fox's. But politicians do need to inspire people, or at least keep them awake, if they are to lead as well...