Word: atomic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best film noir showing this weekend is not part of the festival: Orson Welles's The Lady From Shanghai. Rita Hayworth, whose performance in Gilda so defined the fascinatingly sensual but dangerous woman of the period that her picture was painted an atom bomb, lures Welles into a deadly and mysterious web of murder and corporate intrigue. The film's atmosphere, evoking a sinister world whose logic is not apparent at the surface, is exactly what Polanski was trying to achieve in Chinatown. Welles's eccentric camera angles are carried to new extremes which accentuate the uncertain character of reality...
...Hoosier horse trader" (as Jerry Ford likes to call Earl Butz) was very pleased a few days ago to hear his Communist counterpart in Rumania say "You have something more powerful than atom bombs. You have protein...
Bohr and his Chicago-born collaborator Mottelson (also a Danish citizen), both associated with Copenhagen's Niels Bohr Institute, *and Rainwater, of Columbia University, were cited for their 1940s and 1950s research on the inner structure of the atom. They helped explain oddities in the nucleus' behavior by showing that its myriad components spun and vibrated so as to distort the nucleus into an unexpected ellipsoid, rather than a sphere. These new insights helped set the stage for many of the important advances in particle physics during the past two decades of experimentation...
...Curbs. The situation in Washington has been equally disappointing to Nader and his colleagues. The new Congress, which has many members who have professed serious misgivings about the peaceful atom, has so far failed to pass any bill to curb nuclear energy. The lawmakers are clearly reluctant to act against a technology that already supplies 8.5% of the nation's electricity and generates employment as well-especially when there are no alternative energy sources ready to be used. All this is not to deny that nuclear energy still poses many grave problems. But whether "education"-which to the Naderites...
...copies. Director Robert Altman (Nashville) will film the book next year. To date, Doctorow is best known as the author of The Book of Daniel, an extraordinary succès d'estime that narrowly missed the National Book Award for 1971. Despite parallels to the Rosenberg atom-spy case, the novel has an anguished life all its own. Many of its scenes were set in the Bronx neighborhood where Doctorow grew up. Part of Ragtime also has resonances from the Doctorow past, principally from the New York City suburb of New Rochelle, where the author now lives with...