Word: backwardness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...since, but Alan Lightman, who teaches physics and writing at M.I.T., has an entirely new approach. EINSTEIN'S DREAMS (Pantheon, $17) is a novel, an impressionistic look at thoughts the great physicist might have had while concocting his theory. We are privy to musings about worlds where time runs backward or branches into diverging streams. The writing, beautifully simple, conveys better than most texts the strangeness of Einstein's ideas...
Series producer William Cran has assembled a mass of material with scholarly care and storytelling verve. Each episode is dramatically built, often starting with one key event, then working backward and forward from it. The historical medicine is enlivened with spoonfuls of pop-culture sugar. (In one old TV ad, Marilyn Monroe urges a gas-station attendant to "put Royal Triton in Cynthia's little tummy." Cynthia is her new car.) Not least important is Paul Foss's urgent theme music, one of the best TV scores since The Civil...
House masters interviewed yesterday said the current system of non-ordered choice has helped diversify the houses, and some viewed the enhanced choice proposal as a step backward...
...Bush Republicans were in charge last August in Houston. Why did the GOP bend over backward to accomodate a group which would harm its November chances...
...this week. Canada's team, the Toronto Blue Jays, won the first true World Series in a six-act thriller with America's team, the Atlanta Braves, that proved again that baseball is a game of inches and ifs. Base runners ran backward (costing Atlanta a crucial big inning); umps went myopic (depriving the Jays of the first Series triple play in 72 years). The Braves' batters mostly smacked screamers into grateful Toronto gloves. Atlanta embarrassed no Jays hurler except Jack Morris, the $10 million mercenary who lost both his starts...