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...jokes. There are plentiful stylistic reminders of other film makers, notably Bunuel, Welles and Sergio Leone. One of the film's more vigorous fans wrote that Jodorowsky's library has "thousands of volumes covering every imaginable subject." El Topo almost appears to contain at least a fragment from each, so that it has the look at times of a richly illustrated concordance. But many of the references -like much of the symbolism-are never assimilated, which only serves to make the film forbidding and unwieldy...
...that point," says Bothmer, "it clicked. If the broken statue of Ny-user-ra in Cairo had no arm on its right hip, the arm must have been raised. That described the Rochester fragment." At Bothmer's request, Cairo made a plaster cast of its piece and shipped it to New York. When Bothmer placed the Rochester bust on Ny-user-ra's legs, it fitted exactly. The completed statue is now on display at the Brooklyn Museum -and the Pharaoh looks a lot more pharaonic in one piece than...
...last week. Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, in an address to 1,500 lawyers, judges and law professors at the American Law Institute meeting in Washington, D.C., called for a return to civility in the legal profession. He urged stronger disciplinary measures by the profession itself, for the "tiny fragment" of lawyers who employ more adrenaline than judgment in court (see box). He also criticized the actions of some journalists and students who, he maintained, contributed to the rising swell of public incivility. As TIME Washington Correspondent Dean Fischer reported last week, the reasons for Chief Justice Burger...
...diagram "Protein Synthesis," your artist showed the nucleic-acid fragment UGA as a "three-letter word" that "codes for one amino acid...
...glass windows, the sun shining through painted patterns for speckled rainbows on the walls and floor the original five stations by faded paintings on weathered boards, it was all more than a cathedral ceiling vanishing from the eyes quite short of heaven a small chapel in a home a fragment of fourteenth-century Scottish stained glass leaning against a window-beyond, a dry river, trees and rising hills, crucifix a carved root still part of the dry earth, a candle always on a large smooth stone, flat as a simple altar blind Homer, poet liking water and consequent seas...