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Like X rays, UV radiation can alter cell DNA, producing the mutations associated with cancer. "Both UVA and UVB are carcinogenic," says Harvard Photobiologist Madhu Pathak. UV also appears to suppress the body's immune system. This may explain why certain viral infections, such as chicken pox and fever blisters, become more severe in the sun. And since the immune system is believed to play a role in preventing tumor growth, its suppression "may also be an aggravating factor in the development of skin cancer," says Dr. Margaret Kripke of the National Cancer Institute...
British Playwright Nichols' twist is that almost before the affair begins, the triangle becomes a pentangle. James and Eleanor have alter egos, played by Frank Langella and E. Katherine Kerr. These are id-like private selves who ironically, amusingly and sometimes heartrendingly blurt out and unmask the hypocrisies, fears, desires and fantasies the public selves are hiding. This is a device very much like the one Eugene O'Neill used in Strange Interlude. It can be a potent mode of psychological revelation, al though on occasion it can be, and is, slightly confusing...
...most skillful, Nichols tellingly evokes the Joycean interior monologue in which the tingling shock effect is that of making the holy ritual of the confessional an open secret. In one scene, James is at a one-woman show of Kate's photographs, and his alter ego speaks: "Shall I say it then, in front of all these people? She took my hand and placed it high on her thigh, raising her skirt and slightly opening her legs . . . And all the time we kept talking in loud voices about Cartier-Bresson and was photography an art." Using the same device...
...made for a young audience, that there is a God and there is both a good side and a bad side. You have a choice between them, but the world works better if you're on the good side. It's just that simple." Luke is his alter ego, and it is no coincidence that he chose Mark Hamill, an actor who is about his own height, to play the last of the Jedi knights, or that he named the character Luke in the first place. Does Lucas really believe in the Force? "George says he doesn...
...world's oldest profession. Ever since humankind became literate, civilization has been bedeviled by the forger's determination to deceive by mimicking the writing of others. When a pharaoh first fashioned a seal to protect the identity of his scribblings, a forger lurked with intent to melt, alter and reseal. Around the 5th century B.C. the Athenian poet Onomakritos was expelled from that ancient city for tampering with the oracles of Musaeus. His crime, unlike those of most forgers, had an unintended benefit. Thereafter, whenever a prophecy failed to materialize, the oracle could angrily proclaim that the prediction had been...