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...thrown off the corps for dereliction of his tower (he took long lunches); mate on a charter fishing boat; bagman for a big lettuce caper; treasure hunter for a load of cocaine left in the ground by dealers near an old launching pad near Cape Canaveral (foiled by a flash flood); and stunt car driver for a shoestring film that ran out of money. His heritage was Greek, and he knew all about fencing things in underground Daytona, and who burned down what restaurant for what insurance money...
...Shampoo we encounter people like Lenny, who is concerned only with giving Jackie enough presents to guarantee her love, or Felicia, who drags George into a woman's restroom on a lustful impulse--people who will drop everything at the passing of a pair of pretty legs or the flash of a hairy chest...
...part-time X-ray astronomer at the University of London, Jocelyn Bell Burnell acknowledges that she "made him [Hewish] aware of their sidereal nature and convinced him that it was worth looking into more closely." But she adds: "Nobel Prizes are based on longstanding research, not on a flash-in-the-pan observation of a research student. The award to me would have debased the prize...
...been a major influence on how people and animals are depicted as moving in art, and a new exhibit at the Musuem of Science investigates this. Called Man and Movement, it deals with the photography of movement from Muybridge's first experiments through the development of the strobe flash, and includes character studies, a slide show and photos from the Watergate hearings. Through March...
...Woman Under the Influence in a yawning rerun where R.D. Laing--that tired old intellectual straw man--is propped up only to be laid flat. Going on nothing more concrete than the fact that "The theories of R.D. Laing, the poet of schizophrenic despair, have such theatrical flash that they must hit John Cassavetes smack in the eye," she proclaims his movie "the work of a disciple." She then criticizes the film for straying from a strict Laingian analysis and plunges in the final stake by rejecting the movie because she rejects Laing's view of society. Kael has simply...