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...property is treated with too much respect. Crimes of the Heart won a Pulitzer Prize, not a Nobel. But this kudos can be a curse. Once a play becomes the play, moviemakers like Bruce Beresford (at best an unobtrusive director of human traffic without a natural camera style) attach undue reverence to each line of dialogue. Nobody considers that words spoken in a theater may fall flat in a movie house without the ricochet rhythm provided by audience laughter; everybody concerned tiptoes through the property as if it were the Victoria and Albert Museum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Once a Comedy, Now an Elegy Crimes of the Heart | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

...solution, Mulligan hopes, is to attach the protein's gene to a section of DNA that acts as an on-switch, or promoter, before implanting it in the retrovirus. In his experiments to date, he says, the strategy is "working fantastically," and he expects encouraging results within two or three months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: AIDS Research Spurs New Interest in Some Ancient Enemies | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

...concern is that without ozone, life on earth would be impossible. Ozone is oxygen but in an unusual form. Most oxygen comes in two- atom molecules, but external energy -- in this case, the sun's ultraviolet radiation -- can split some of them apart. The single oxygen atoms tend to attach themselves to the remaining molecules, forming an oxygen-atom triplet. The result: a layer, from six to 30 miles up, of ozone-enriched air. Once formed, an ozone molecule is a good absorber of ultraviolet. But when CFCs rise to the ozone layer, sunlight decomposes them, releasing the chlorine they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: What Is Destroying the Ozone? | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

Harvard sophomore heavyweight John Amory compared Parker to Bear Bryant, the legendary head coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide. "He's someone you can latch onto as the symbol of the whole Harvard crew program," Amory said of Parker. "We've had a really successful program and you attach that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Perseverance and Desire | 10/18/1986 | See Source »

Attorney Gerald Kroll, representing Raphael Gregorian, said he would move within the next two weeks to attach unspecified Soviet holdings in the United States unless Soviet officials change their minds and pay Gregorian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Libeled Businessman to Seize Soviet Assets in U.S. | 10/16/1986 | See Source »

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