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Bill was born in Hugo, Okla., but the family moved to Texas while he was still in diapers, finally settling in Marshall, a sizable (pop. 25,000) East Texas oil-processing and manufacturing town named after Chief Justice John Marshall. Moyers considers himself a Texan. "Do I detect a Texas accent?" a TV interviewer once asked him. "Not only in my speech, sir," he replied, "but in my heart...
...ignores it. Plowing steadily along in the wake of Dr. Strangelove and Fail Safe, his drama is sharpest in its seriocomic side-glances at counterespionage aboard ship. The best scene takes place in sick bay, where diagnosticians earnestly analyze a specimen of floating garbage to see if they can detect Red cabbage, a staple of Soviet submarines. In another cryptic comment on cold war manners, a Russian surface vessel passes to port, simultaneously dipping its colors and dumping refuse over the side. Such cogency is missing from the standard high-megaton finale. Obviously made without the full cooperation...
...eventually teaches Grandier to find God in his fellow man. Whiting purposely contrasts the sewerman's habitual obscenities with both the eloquence of Grandier and the blasphemies of the hysterical Prioress. While the sewermen explains to Grandier about the caged bird he holds before him in the sewer to detect poisonous fumes, Grandier steps non-chalantly over an open manhole. Later Grandier will be imprisoned and sacrificed like the bird. Such subtle touches paint a picture of a man who constantly defies fortune and of whom fortune will soon make sport...
People who have had whiplash accidents sometimes complain of blinding headaches, partial paralysis, dizziness, deafness, blindness-and inability to tolerate alcohol. But because it has been difficult or impossible in most cases to detect physical damage to the brain, lawyers for insurance companies-as well as some doctors-have argued that such symptoms are psychologically induced by the "blow from behind," and are more imaginary than real. Experiments like Dr. Ommaya's go far to confirm the possibility of severe and lasting, though invisible, damage...
...that physicists know how to detect neutrinos, they should be able to gain a deeper understanding of the complex nature of energy and matter. They are eager to test their many theories about neutrinos, especially the one that the tiny particles may be "ashes" left by the disintegration of ordinary matter-or possibly a basic component in the creation of all matter...