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...cancer, hyperactivity and a type of diabetes -- but also sketched out the first rough map of all human chromosomes. Other researchers explored ways to use this information to replace damaged genes. The first beneficiaries of ''gene therapy'' -- two Ohio girls who have an immune-deficiency disease -- made their public debut after three years of successful treatment. More than 50 similar experiments are under...
DIED. MOSES GUNN, 64, actor; from complications of asthma; in Guilford, Connecticut. Cofounder of the Negro Ensemble Company, Gunn, the oldest of seven children of a St. Louis, Missouri, laborer, made his off-Broadway debut in the legendary New York premiere of Jean Genet's provocative The Blacks (1962). Gunn won Obie awards for his work in Titus Andronicus (1967) and The First Breeze of Summer (1975), and was admired for his Othello. Movie credits included The Great White Hope (1970) and Shaft...
DIED. JANET MARGOLIN, 50, actress; of ovarian cancer; in Los Angeles. Margolin's uncut emotion and striking brunet beauty were displayed to their greatest effect in her debut film, David and Lisa (1962), a ground-breaking study of disturbed teenagers with Margolin opposite Keir Dullea. In an utterly different vein, she is also remembered as the long-suffering wife of inept criminal Woody Allen in Take the Money...
...production grant at New York City’s P.S. 122 performance space in 2004, and has since worked on pieces with world-renowned dancers and choreographers Douglas Dunn, Jennifer Monson, and Yoshiko Chuma. On October 2nd, Yamaguchi had the honor of seeing “7x7x7x7x7” debut at New York’s City Center. However, Yamaguchi continues to perform and work at the campus of his alma mater, returning to Cambridge as recently as last week As part of the “Forte!” dance festival, he performed a solo piece entitled...
...Writer” makes good business sense–when his work is criticized, supporters of gay writing as an institution tend to rally to his aid. When Section 28, a British law (now repealed) forbidding promotion of homosexuality by public authorities, threatened to bar his debut novel “The Swimming Pool Library” (1988) from libraries, its sales only grew. Similar counterattacks followed a review by John Updike ‘54 of Hollinghurst’s “The Spell” (1999), in which (according to Hollinghurst) Updike implied “some...