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Paul Newman may share Zindel's concern, but he has the taste to screen out Zindel's effulgences. The camera follows Beatrice unobtrusively and manages to watch her with sympathy. Lighting the film in greenish blues gives touch rather than drip to the melancholy forced by the heavy language of the play. Unfortunately, Newman is a prisoner of his material. It is Zindel's tiresome play that sends the movie floundering in sentimental squalor...
...found a way. They report in Lancet that cytosine arabinoside (ara-C), a drug known to check the multiplication of several viruses that have DNA cores, may be potent against variola, the virus of smallpox. During the April-May epidemic in Bangladesh, they gave ara-C by continuous-drip injection to nine victims. Seven made rapid recoveries with minimal scarring, one showed no benefit, and one died (apparently of variolar pneumonia). By contrast, among 97 untreated cases in the district, there were 42 deaths. The doctors suggest that these preliminary results are encouraging enough to warrant further tests...
What's worse than trying to sleep to the drip-drip of a leaky faucet? That's right. Trying to study to the clank-clank of a steam pipe. That's what the average stall-user has to contend with daily in Widener Library. With all respect to Widener's age and reputation as a bulwark of books, the place has at least this one uningratiating side. I guess you'd call it just old-fashioned wind. At any moment, the quiet of your stall is likely to be shattered by a god awful, devil-inspired cacophany of thumps, whacks...
...steady drip of words continued through wars and economic disasters. Staff members and volunteer readers came and went, the synaptic gutters of their brains clogged with obscure references; their eyes failed; their arteries hardened. It is not known where, when or by whom the last word in the O.E.D.'s last entry was written. But then, cathedrals of language, like medieval churches, subordinate the personalities of their builders. Besides, neither is ever really finished. In 1933 the O.E.D. was reissued in twelve volumes plus a supplement. Last year the volumes were reproduced "micrographically" (photographically shrunk) into two volumes...
Maureen Stapleton livens up the tryouts of Paul Zindel's play. Although pleasant, the steady drip, drip, drip of situation comedy makes these secret affairs less than wild...