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...unconditional love. Both are avid for the moment the shop door closes "so we can drown in the ocean of peace we love so much." French director Patrice Leconte, whose fine Monsieur Hire also dealt with romantic obsession, has devised a chamber fable about a man's infantile charm and a woman's nurturing sexuality. The movie is like the couple's love: pure, brief, passionate, heartbreaking...
Parker is not aiming at archival preservation. In fact, some jazz purists fault him for taking liberties with the original material. Parker shrugs off the charge. "There's this romantic notion that cracks and surface noise are part of the charm of the old 78s. Not for me." And certainly not for the vast majority of the listening public -- particularly younger music fans -- who have grown used to CDs and sophisticated sound equipment. "Here's this amazing American cultural heritage locked in an antique technology," says Parker, "and that's a barrier to a younger generation that might find much...
...from a violent lover, a government bureaucracy that takes away her housing allowance the minute she earns a little extra income. This made- for-TV movie has more authentic feminist spirit than Murphy Brown, more realism and heart than The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, and more plainspoken charm than any TV movie seen in the U.S. in years...
Algiers' only rival for the sophisticated coffee-guzzling crowd is Cafe Pamplona, on Bow St. The low ceiling, tiny tables, and dim lighting are all part of the bohemian charm. This basement cafe has a menu featuring lots of fancy coffees and is usually chock-full of aspiring poet-types...
...When I proposed this idea, people thought it was crazy," says Kenneth Culver, an oncology researcher at the National Cancer Institute. But it worked like a charm. In 11 of the 14 rats, the tumors disappeared completely. The results were so promising that an NIH watchdog committee has already okayed a similar test on humans. The risks are high. The researchers will, in effect, be putting mouse genes directly into human brains. But the payoff could be great. Scientists are now searching for other inoperable cancers that might succumb to what they are calling "molecular surgery...