Word: brooklyn
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...borough. They. Are. Stupid! They, and you the viewer, are supposed to believe that this huge creature - whose stride spans several city blocks, and who could get across the East River in about three steps - is some sort of snob who wouldn't be caught dead in Brooklyn. (But his victims would. That tail whips out of the water and snaps the Brooklyn Bridge...
...Rabinowitz has emerged as the global spokesman for big cats, a scientist willing to talk to anyone, at any time, in the service of animals. His mentor, the great naturalist George Schaller, has said that Rabinowitz is "superb at finding local solutions to conservation problems," in part because the Brooklyn-born scientist knows that wildlife will be safe only if the governments of the world, including the developing the world, come to see that conservation is in their interest...
...this I Am Legend, a qualified maybe. The word "mixed" isn't mixed enough to fit my response to this film. I like its fancifully ghostly, ghastly look: the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges missing their center sections (they were bombed to keep people from getting out or in), the whole idea of the most congested U.S. city utterly abandoned, as if everyone had finally moved to the Sunbelt or the Hamptons. I admire, and share, the movie's extended interest in Neville's daily ritual as cop (hunting down the vampire-like infectees), woodsman (looking for animals that will...
With an 88-77 loss at Long Island University’s Wellness Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. last night, the Harvard men’s basketball team (4-7) dropped its third straight contest since knocking off the Wolverines at Lavietes Pavilion...
...accomplished classical pianist. According to his son, he almost forwent his career in medicine to study music. Born in England, MacMahon attended the University of Birmingham. He served for two years as a ship’s doctor in the Royal Navy before crossing the pond to study in Brooklyn. He finally settled at Harvard in 1958, when he assumed leadership of the department. MacMahon retired from academia in 1989, soon after he stepped down as chair of epidemiology. He died after suffering complications from a stroke. Dimitrios Trichopoulos, who succeeded MacMahon as head of the epidemiology department, praised MacMahon?...