Word: brained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...television news, with its gift for dramatic fragments of reality, made Dada arrangements of each day's history. The rush of images seemed to give the entire political process a ruinously short attention span. As the English poet George Meredith once prayed, "More brain, O Lord, more brain...
...Chris' chief antagonist. Peter Weller plays Sam with scary perfection. Weller, who most recently portrayed the brain suergon-rqckstar-world hero in Buckaroo Bonsai, switches easily but believably from a dreamy drifter to a dangerous madman, with much of the same charge seen in last year's Star...
DIED. Jon-Erik Hexum, 26, actor and model who was starring in the new TV series Cover Up until he shot himself in the temple two weeks ago with a blank-loaded .44-cal. Magnum pistol while playing "Russian roulette"; of brain damage; in San Francisco. After a week's struggle to save his life, doctors pronounced him brain dead, and his heart, kidneys and corneas were used for transplants. The show will go on; a search for Hexum's replacement has already started...
...clone, of the original hybrid, the antibody is pure and therefore a precise instrument. Says Milstein: "It al lows you to discriminate one molecule from another." Monoclonal antibodies can home in on targets ranging from a malignant cell to a malaria parasite to a specific structure in the brain. They have already showed promise in treating transplant and cancer patients...
Even for nonstudents, The Brain is one of the sea- son's most engrossing new series. The eight hour-long shows focus mainly on human case studies illustrating the brain's functions and dysfunctions. In one episode, Choreographer Agnes DeMille is shown learning to use her body again after a near fatal brain hemorrhage. Another, called "Rhythms and Drives," introduces a Virginia woman who plunges into a crippling depression every winter. For months, she tearfully relates, her time is spent "sleeping, eating, crying." Her disorder is apparently an exaggerated version of the brain's natural response...