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Grey calls those who treat Wood with benign contempt "jackals of bourgeois sensibility." And he's right. As critic Jim Morton notes, "If there is a 'worst film ever made,' it is one that is boring -- a sin Ed Wood Jr. is rarely guilty of." But there is a more melancholy irony to be found in Grey's interviews with the director's colleagues. Unlike most trashmeisters, Wood had radical messages for his audience: about sexual tolerance (Glen or Glenda), nuclear madness (Plan 9), parental smugness (The Sinister Urge). He was as dedicated to filmmaking as Welles or Kurosawa...
...guess I might be interested in something political in 25 years--if I've achieved something somewhere else," says Adam D. Taxin '93, former co-chair of the Undergraduate Council's academics committee. "President for life might be good Or maybe benign dictator or philosopherking...
...requiring a 24-hour waiting period will go into effect if the Supreme Court upholds that provision in the Pennsylvania law. Though it sounds benign enough, it can confound poor women who already have to travel long distances to find a clinic, only to discover they must also scrape together the price of overnight accommodations. Often by the time they get the money together, they have advanced into the second trimester, when the cost is higher. (Only 12 states -- Mississippi is not one of them -- routinely provide Medicaid financing for abortion.) Nancy Rogers owns one of the clinics near Jackson...
...bacteria. Since genetic mutations are one cause of cancer, they decided to move up a few rungs on the evolutionary ladder. They subjected specially bred hairless mice to the lights 12 hours a day for a year and found that every one developed skin tumors -- most benign, but some cancerous. The research, reported in the British journal Nature, involved only a handful of mice, so it was labeled a pilot study. But the results were so striking that the authors recommended installing UV filters on halogen lamps already in use and requiring that all new ones come equipped with such...
...graft-vs.-host disease (GVHD), a potentially fatal reaction in which the foreign tissue tries to reject its new body (rather than the other way around). Researchers have found that thalidomide seems to keep that reaction in check. Compared with other treatments for GVHD, the drug is relatively benign -- as long as the patient is absolutely certain she's not pregnant...