Word: cell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Financial Flicks. Erdman's cell was comfortable enough: a room in a former Basel monastery where the authorities allowed him .to order dinner and wines sent in from nearby restaurants. But, not knowing how long he would stay, Erdman started writing a novel about gold speculators. Says he: "I had just come off the excitement of international banking and I was full of theories. Primarily, I was convinced the world was facing the first cataclysmic financial events since World War II, a massive increase in the price of gold and devaluation of the dollar." The book, The Billion Dollar...
...said Lewis Thomas, the distinguished physician and writer (The Lives of a Cell), soon after he became president of Manhattan's famed Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center four years ago. Last week his sardonic words rang truer still. After five years of exhaustive studies with mice, researchers at his world-renowned institute concluded that in spite of early indications it might control the spread of tumors, the controversial drug Laetrile showed no anticancer properties. Yet even while they were strengthening the scientific case against the apricot-pit extract, also known as vitamin B17, Laetrile's supporters were predicting...
Smitty's evolution into the lord (or lady) of the cell does not work as well. But the blame does not go to George Elliot, whose only problem is a bit of stiffness and hesitancy in his delivery. The offender is the script, which tries to squeeze two quantum leaps in Smitty's development into two short acts. Initially, Elliot plays Smitty as a naive, slow-witted, very unhip rookie whose first revelation to the cell is that he plans to learn advanced auto mechanics while behind bars. Then suddenly Smitty becomes a sensitive, loyal friend to Mona. And finally...
...works, too, because the sort of character Rocky sums up should seem ill at ease. By background, he is a child of the streets. But deep down he possesses a far broader understanding of the world and bigger dreams than the others. (He is the only inmate in the cell with a stack of newspapers under his bunk...
Still, physical differences do exist: Orientals are generally smaller than Caucasians (and, incidentally, better gymnasts for it); certain diseases have been shown to be genetically linked to particular groups and races-Tay-Sachs disease among Jews and sickle-cell anemia among blacks. The shapes of eyes and noses vary as widely among the races as do skin colors...