Word: defectives
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...help remedy this defect, the faculty at Chicago's Columbia College, a small, obscure liberal arts school, will try to coax returning veterans to put their experience on paper. The college is offering a writing course called Psychology of War: the Combat Experience. Started by Instructor Larry Heinemann, 28, who commanded an armored personnel carrier in Viet Nam, the course is open to any student with combat experience. Says Heinemann: "Only combat veterans can talk about combat, because it is so alien, so dehumanizing, so decivilizing...
Harvard's Richard Sidman, who was the first to apply the reassembly technique to brain cells, is now experimenting with a special variety of laboratory-produced mice called "reelers." A genetically caused "wiring" defect in the cerebellum and cerebral cortex of the reelers' brains impairs their coordination so completely that they stagger like drunks whenever they try to walk. Remarkably, when the brain tissue was taken from fetuses that had just developed the defect, Sidman's cells reorganized themselves in the same curious pattern...
...stock Feydeau device is a shady hotel where the liaisons are to be consummated in a room simultaneously booked to two or three couples. There is inevitably a physical defect that Feydeau manages to make howlingly funny rather than mockingly cruel. This time there is a stone-deaf lady (Helen Burns), who is being taken to Carmen for a treat, after which her medical-officer husband (Tony Van Bridge) intends to mix her a sleeping potion to celebrate the couple's 25th wedding anniversary. There is always a foreign couple (Swedish, in this case) who come in for some...
...drab bodystocking which fails to distinguish him from even the three-line walk-ons. He simply lacks the physical stature which Brutus requires to dominate the play. There is nothing wrong with Hilton's approach to the role, but his costuming detracts severely from his credibility. This defect changes the entire emphasis of the play. Normally, Julius Caesar is a drama which builds consistently to Antony's eulogy of Brutus, "This was the noblest Roman of them all". In this performance, though, the action of this play is resolved by Caesar's funeral, and the last two acts become denouement...
...little, lose a little for Ballerina Natalia Malcarova, 30, who defected from Russia last year and joined the American Ballet Theater. She won a fiancé, Vladimir Rodzianko, who had helped her defect and left his wife and two children to be her manager. But she lost the chance to dance before Queen Elizabeth II at the Royal Ballet's gala when she tore a muscle in her thigh...