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...resources moving in the same direction is impressive." Also formidable have been some of the problems the Games have caused the magazine's various staffs -- from the Copy Desk, which had to devise special style rules (Is a common figure skater's jump an a) Axel, b) axel or c) Axle? Answer: Axel), to the Photography Department, where Researcher Dorothy Affa Ames dispatched her forces all over Europe and North America to corner elusive athletes...
Genentech, Inc. will use a Columbia-patented method developed by Professor of Biochemistry and Pathology Richard Axel and colleagues to develop a drug that could help sufferers of heart attacks, The Spectator reported...
...sense, then, our monarchs are in fact our subjects, hostage to the dreams we wish them to enact. Axel, the wan hero dreamed up by the French symbolist Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, famously suggested that he and his fellow aristocrats leave the messy business of living to their servants; these days, we would just as soon leave it to our monarchs. We demand of them, moreover, a double role: they must be godlike mortals, fallible gods. Upon peering into their closets, we wish not only to marvel at the gowns but also to revel in the skeletons that hang...
Above all, no attempt has been made to expand Murphy's character. Axel Foley is still a man who can instantly weave a seemingly impenetrable disguise out of an accent and a gush of words parodying everyone from a West Indian psychic to a building inspector. That it is good fun to watch him talk his way into and out of trouble, past authority figures both petty and grand, is beyond dispute. That he can assert his brilliance while retaining his character's lovability in these encounters is a little miracle of the performer's art. That he could move...
This is the big opportunity Beverly Hills Cop II misses. For there is an inherent problem about any sequel that too slavishly duplicates the style and substance of its predecessor; it cannot deliver the delight of discovery that the original provided. Axel made a swell first impression, but he is still living on it, perhaps not yet a bore, but not quite as fascinating as he once promised to be. This is not going to bother the apparently vast audience that now exists for twice-told tales about familiar figures. And it makes life easy for the guys in marketing...