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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Certainly, Gilbert's group is in competition with the California researchers but Gilbert smiles, hesitating to say that he is involved in a "race." The thrill of a good race appeals to him. Rather than being harmful to the research, such pressure probably stimulates better work, Gilbert says, adding, "It can be detrimental, or one can simply view it as part of the effervescence of the field of science. It's not a question of added pressure. I like to rush," he insists...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: A Scientific Race: Recombining DNA | 11/14/1978 | See Source »

...When people are doing things similar enough so they can talk with one another," Gilbert says, "they are doing things where they can compete." He feels that it is important for the groups to pursue the same aims independently, saying, "There is no way of knowing which way is better...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: A Scientific Race: Recombining DNA | 11/14/1978 | See Source »

...want to congratulate Mr. Marsden on his timely and splendidly written article on going to Ox-bridge (Crimson October 31). Students thinking of going that way next fall will be a good deal better prepared after reading what Mr. Marsden...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 11/14/1978 | See Source »

...excellent Disney films. The background painting is rich and highly detailed, and this allows the multiplane camera to exploit its ability to create the illusion of three-dimensionality, rather like the great tracks through the forests of Snow White and Bambi. Disney's craftsmen might have made better visual definitions of characters-it's sometimes hard to tell one cottontail from another -but the vocal characterizations by such English worthies as Ralph Richardson, Harry Andrews and Denholm Elliott are never confusing. The English pastoral tradition, both in painting and hi literature, informs the movie in a subliminal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bunny Business | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

...huge set pieces come off a bit better, especially so in the case of a tumultuous fight scene that parallels the climax of Rocky. But it is really around its fringes that Paradise Alley becomes interesting. Kevin Conway, as a James Cagney-inspired hood, brings savage, roughhouse wit to some incidental barroom scenes. In the expendable role of a has-been black wrestler, Frank McRae is a knockout. Though playing a slow-witted loser without money or friends, this actor retains a delicate sense of dignity. His two brief scenes carry more emotional weight than all the rest of Paradise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hard Times | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

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