Word: brains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...epics in Airplane! and spy movies in Top Secret! Now they have stolen from themselves, extending their 1982 TV series Police Squad! to feature length. The stretch marks show, in a plethora of chase scenes and bathroom humor that makes The Naked Gun seem like Police Academy with a brain. Well, maybe three brains. Like the ZAZ lads' other films, this is a movie made for a VCR Saturday night. They supply the jokes; you bring the microwave popcorn and modest expectations...
...research facility links the fields of neurology, neurosurgery and psychiatry in an effort to learn more about the brain and to develop treatments for neurologic and psychiatric diseases...
...Understanding the brain and nervous system is probably the last major obstacle to overcome in modern science," said Martin S. Bander, an MGH spokesperson. "The interdisciplinary approach of the program should further enable us to develop a number of ways of diagnosing, treating and even curing many diseases...
...have a feeling it is more or less the same part of my brain which does both [math and music]," reflects Elkies, "they speak to the same place, the same aesthetic...
...tragedy enlarged through the afternoon. First had come the awareness of the death of a man, a friend, a father and a husband. Then numbed nerves began to grapple with the fact that the Government too was brain-dead for the moment. There was the sense of a beast in convulsion at Parkland. Police rushed here and there. Vehicles circled, darted. A small coterie with Vice President Lyndon Johnson . . . No, try it again. A small coterie with President Lyndon Johnson dashed for Love Field and Air Force One. A piece of lead weighing less than an ounce had blown away...