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THIS SUPERFICIAL attitude toward the impact of violence carries through into the structure of the entire film. De Palma introduces humorous moments in order, he says, to make the violence more bearable. These moments he handles effectively (in fact, the TV quiz show parody that opens the film and the...
Such a radical attack on science's vaunted objectivity is supported by no less a scientific dictum than Physicist Werner Heisenberg's half-century-old Principle of Uncertainty, which points out that the very act of observing disturbs the system. Writes Physicist Dietrich Schroeer in his perceptive book...
HARVARD'S RESPONSIBILITIES at Black Rock Forest have yet another dimension. The committee report delineates well the facets of this element--the concern over ecological damage. It notes that economic feasibility of the project involves the questionable construction of two other power plants currently stalled in legal action, and that...
The Times's troubles added a new dimension to a growing conflict over the rights of newsmen to keep secrets. The Times's source-former FBI Agent Alfred Baldwin III-was clearly identified in the story. Defense lawyers wanted the tapes of his interview on the chance that...
Another dimension of that orientation is sketched by Religion Scholar Jacob Needleman, author of The New Religions and, like Thompson, a cartographer of the revival of mysticism. Men lost a certain humility, Needleman says, when they abandoned the medieval idea of geocentrism-the belief that the earth is surrounded by...