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...brilliant administrator, and is held in such high regard by his colleagues across the country," he said...
Sensing the provost's concern, the Devil takes him on a tour. The provost is bewildered, for the university seems ideal. The grounds are beautiful and well-maintained, the students are smart and eager, the professors are brilliant and productive...
Last week Watson and Crick were euphoric again as they gathered with a brilliant galaxy of scientists, biotech executives and other friends to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the discovery that opened a new era. The site was the century-old Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on New York's Long Island, where Watson, host of the glittering symposium, has served as director for 25 years. The appearance of the reclusive Crick helped highlight the event; he seldom ventures forth from California's Salk Institute for Biological Studies, where for the past 17 years he has been studying the brain...
...Woods or ruminating on how the national pastime embodies our darkest heritage in the antiheroic biography Cobb. He hits a new peak in TWO ROOMS, a depiction of a Beirut hostage and his grieving wife that merges harrowing narrative with elegantly poetic, and redemptive, visual and verbal imagery. A brilliant, too-brief off-Broadway staging by James Houghton, starring Jeffrey Hayenga and the unforgettable Laura Esterman, has just closed. The play deserves further productions around the country...
This framing device is rather labored, but in Peter Hall's brilliant production -- complete with stylized masked figures pantomiming the mythological background -- the action it encompasses builds to a fierce momentum. Pennington and particularly Dench perform with such conviction that one forgets there is anything preposterous about their characters. This time Shaffer does not stack the deck in his perennial intellect-ecstasy debate but leaves the outcome ambiguous. In a gory, disturbing finale, both Edward and Helen must plumb, in their ways, the terrible meaning of the Perseus legend: that the slayer of the Gorgon becomes the thing...