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ASSISTANT EDITORS: Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo, Andrea Dorfman, Brigid O'Hara-Forster, William Tynan, Sidney Urquhart, Jane Van Tassel (Department Heads); Bernard Baumohl, David Bjerklie, Mary McC. Fernandez, Georgia Harbison, Sue Raffety, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph...
...often reflected in the TV monitor essential to his life and work. This, combined with the sound of Hawking's voice synthesizer, reinforces our sense of his isolation and immobility and the idea that we are in the presence of pure, disembodied thought, a little like that which George Bernard Shaw imagined as the end of evolution in his play Man and Superman. That the metaphorical richness of this hypnotic movie has been accomplished by such simple means is a mark of its excellence...
ASSISTANT EDITORS: Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo, Andrea Dorfman, Brigid O'Hara-Forster, William Tynan, Sidney Urquhart, Jane Van Tassel (Department Heads); Bernard Baumohl, David Bjerklie, Mary McC. Fernandez, Georgia Harbison, Sue Raffety, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph...
ASSISTANT EDITORS: Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo, Andrea Dorfman, Brigid O'Hara-Forster, William Tynan, Sidney Urquhart, Jane Van Tassel (Department Heads); Bernard Baumohl, David Bjerklie, Mary McC. Fernandez, Georgia Harbison, Sue Raffety, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph...
...have a more intimate understanding of the doomsday scenario than Bernard T. Gallagher. Known to his friends as Bud, he was a Strategic Air Command pilot and served as director of Mount Weather for 25 years, until his retirement last March. A robust 70 years old, he wears a white cowboy hat, drives a hot-pink '65 Mustang convertible and is an unabashed patriot. As an "atomic-cloud sampler," he flew through the billowing mushrooms of 13 U.S. nuclear blasts in 1952 and 1953. To measure the radiation passing through him, he swallowed an X-ray plate coated with Vaseline...