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...HASARD Balthazar (writer-director Robert Bresson) is an attack on sentimentality that manages to avoid all the depressing, self-affirming, grimy little pessimism that flaunts itself in the name of honest cinema. The conception here is far more complex: something of benign hopelessness with a comic sense. Bresson has something unpleasant to say, but he says it pleasantly. He sets his film in the countryside and makes of the story an inverted pastoral...
...digested almost immediately by the body's enzymes if it were injected into the bloodstream, thus making conventional methods of administering medication impractical. But RNA viruses, which produce DNA, have proven their ability to move directly into the cells and could easily carry such communications. Scientists speculate that benign viruses could be made in test tubes with proteins and synthesized RNA. The viruses, injected into the body, would home in on the cancerous growth and shut down the cells' runaway reproductive mechanism...
...street by myself-for sixteen hours of traffic direction the day of the Kent State-Cambodia demonstration last spring. I found that the uniform did half my work or me. People look at you, think you're a policeman, and you are. On the day of that relatively benign assembly. I was one of scores of rookie policemen who rapped and took our lunch breaks with groups of passing demonstrators. The consensus was that the New Mobe's marshals carried the bigger stick and we spoke more softly...
Throughout U.S. Journal, a collection of Trillin's New Yorker pieces, the author reportedly lands like a benign ordering presence-deus ex-machine gunner-amidst chaos, humbug and hoopla. Covering a great deal of ground, he is naturally sympathetic toward other traveling men. He writes about a Dow Chemical recruiter who in 1968 had to go from campus to campus, removing his shoes to step over antiwar demonstrators, and try to answer such polite undergraduate questions as, "I was wondering if a Dow employee could be prosecuted as a war criminal ten or 15 years from now?" Elsewhere, Trillin...
...punishment hardly fit the crimes, which makes it harder to believe that the government's attorneys in St. Louis are as benign as they say they...