Word: brenner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...laboratory's success would be dependent on conscientious personnel, but current procedures in radioactive and carcenogenic research are "cavalier," Michael Brenner '65, assistant professor of Biology, said...
Fizzled Poseurs. Larry and Sarah's friends have a nodding acquaintance with both self-destruction and self-fulfillment. Robert (Christopher Walken) writes plays, lives off women; Connie (Dori Brenner) wants to be a novelist and plays nursemaid to her black gay pal Bernstein Chandler (Antonio Fargas), who claims his mother named him after the Jewish family for whom she worked 30 years as a maid. All of them keep an eye on the fragile, mad-eyed actress Anita (Lois Smith), who periodically attempts suicide...
When the index climbs as high as it is now, the results can be distressing. During a regional hearing in Atlanta last week, the Joint Economic Committee was told by M. Harvey Brenner, an associate professor of public health at Johns Hopkins University, that there are concrete correlations between economic hard times and serious physical and social ills. According to Brenner, high inflation and widespread unemployment bring increased suicides, higher incidences of cirrhosis of the liver due to heavier drinking, and an upsurge in mortality from cardiovascular diseases. There is also an apparent strong correlation with increased crime-the next...
...down-and-outers of the raw, physical side of life, because aside from the black woman and Fran (Valerie Kiuelson), an alcoholic singer on her way to an appointment with the Monongahela River, the play doesn't do too well. The poet (John Sviolka) and the old lady (Ellen Brenner) seem worried about problem--sex and death--that the one-act play just can't fully explore. The bus driver (Leo Pierre Roy) is indistinguishable from his old crate; he's just a vehicle for the play, and his last line sums it all up neatly: "Watch your step...
Teeny-boppers love him. Journalist Marie Brenner describes him as "an utterly charming Irishman who could make you believe just about anything in less than 30 minutes." Composer Elmer Bernstein says: "he possesses a grandeur of vision that is quite staggering." His daughter Teresa, 15, thinks he is "just like a good friend." At first meeting, Tom Laughlin's glittering blue eyes and ready grin make him seem the soul of affability. But beware. The smallest infraction can trip a temper that has become as infamous as Mussolini's. Tom's face grows scarlet, and his voice...