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...active in the nose and nowhere else in the body. What is more, the molecules they found seem to be part of an extended family of smell genes -- perhaps the largest single family in the long strand of mammalian DNA. "We have identified a few hundred genes," says Richard Axel, a professor at Columbia's Howard Hughes Medical Institute. "And there is reason to suspect there may be as many as a thousand...
BABETTE'S FEAST Cooking is a metaphor for art in Gabriel Axel's wise, deeply ironic and richly realized adaptation of Isak Dinesen's story...
...national anguish for Sweden since the Prime Minister was gunned down in February 1986. Last week hopes rose that the hunt was at an end when the Stockholm District Court arraigned Christer Pettersson, 41, an underworld debt collector with a criminal record that includes manslaughter. Said deputy chief prosecutor Axel Morath: "I think we now have...
...Orion Ross) is outraged that the Communists have taken "an innocent caterer" from Newark, New Jersey captive; his wife (Sara Melson) spends her time running up the embassy phone bill with constant calls to friends back home; and his daughter (Eliza Rosenbluth) predictably falls in love with the hapless Axel...
...performed like the Three Stooges or Laurel and Hardy, though this seems to be the Dunster House approach. Physical humor, which might play well in the background, is brought to center stage, detracting from the play itself. The audience is treated to such extended vignettes as Axel struggling with Scotch tape and the embassy priest struggling to free himself from a Houdiniesque magic trick. These antics are funny by themselves, but are not anywhere near enough to carry an entire play...