Word: apartness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Freedom, directed by Sir Richard Attenborough (Gandhi). Due in early November, it explores the friendship between Stephen Biko (Denzel Washington), the black leader who died in prison after police interrogation, and Donald Woods, a white anti-apartheid newspaper editor (Kevin Kline). Coming next spring is Atlantic's A World Apart, about a family caught in the racial strife of the 1960s, with Barbara Hershey. Also planned: The Long Weekend, to star Julian Sands as Neil Aggett, the first white activist to die in jail...
...procedure was organized "like a military operation," says Rogers. "We had to plan where 70 people would stand, where to put two bypass machines and all kinds of monitoring equipment." Two operating tables were modified so they would swing apart when the twins were separated. A ten-page play-by-play book detailed each step of the operation. Five rehearsals were held, using life-size dolls attached at the head with Velcro...
...operation began as planned at 7:15 a.m. By 9 p.m., the skin and skull had been divided. "We have lift-off," announced Carson as the last of the bone came apart. But the job was more difficult than anticipated. The shared sinus and its surrounding tissue were twisted and corkscrewed, complicating the separation. At 11, circulation was halted, and the critical hour began. By 11:20, the last connection was severed, and the tables were swung apart. "It was a very moving moment," Rogers recalls. "Everyone was silent and astounded." Still, there was much to do before the clock...
...ozone layer can cause skin cancers and has been linked to cataracts. With less ozone, these disorders will increase; with no ozone at all, the UV could be deadly. Scientists have long suspected that decomposing CFCs in the stratosphere release chlorine, which acts as a catalyst, breaking ozone molecules apart. But it was all theory: Could the chemicals rise so high into the atmosphere? Might not the chlorine have come from such natural sources as volcanic eruptions...
...running out) are, without exception, genuine. There is nothing titillating or vulgar about the PM's confession of missing Charles Darke because of loving him. And McEwan's humor is never simply topical. "I can't go anywhere alone," says the government leader of the impossible romance. "Bodyguards apart, I have to take the nuclear hotline, and that means at least three engineers. And an extra driver. And someone from Joint Staff." "Disarm," Stephen urges, "for the sake of the heart." One should not be ashamed to read this astonishing book for the same reason...