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Fatness is the beginning, though not the end, of Taxi Driver's problems. For one thing, Travis is more a case study than a character. The backgrounds against which he moves never transcend the documentary category, never fuse into an artful vision of urban hellishness. Scorsese's work may be best-of-breed, but it is a familiar breed. The movie has an air of recent discovery, of shocked innocence about the tawdry quality of city life that is gratingly naive...
...surprisingly lyrical composer. Paula Robinson, who directed a recent Harvard Chamber Players performance of Differences, likened Berio to "a troubadour being harassed by machines, yet still loving them." Individual lines are full of wide leaps and bizarre, shifting rhythms, but like Jackson Pollock's dribblings of paint, the lines fuse into a seamless fabric when played together. The sound is not thoroughly blended or homogenized like that of a Romantic string quartet, but there is a dramatic movement which, like the individual drops of water which merge to create a wave, can sweep a listener along...
...made spares. But they have had only limited success with artificial ankles. In many cases the best they could do was to put in a hinge that allowed the foot to move only up or down. The accepted treatment for most patients with badly damaged ankles has been to fuse the bones, an operation that locks the ankle and radically reduces mobility. Now there is additional hope for patients whose ankles might otherwise have to be immobilized. A California physician has improved on earlier models by designing an artificial ankle joint that closely duplicates the action of the original...
...movies which one could froth happily at the mouth about (punishment for exceeding quota: a month at Judith Crist's movie camp with continuous showings of At Long Last Love) M. would be a picture to stand by. Fritz Lang's direction turns the cinema into images which fuse with one's own societal paranoia. There are a whole list of things which you may never do again after seeing M and a few of them are: whistle the Peer Gynt Suite, allow a kid to walk to school without an armed guard, see a floating balloon and not wonder...
There is a biological time bomb in Maine's north woods armed with a fuse set to explode it in a month. Awakened by the warming sun, billions of tiny spruce-budworm larvae will hatch and turn into ravenous caterpillars, ready to eat all the needles and buds on spruce and balsam fir, hemlock and tamarack. Before their appetite is sated, the budworms are expected to chew their way through some 6 million acres of conifers. For 3.5 million of those acres-an area larger than Connecticut-this will be the third straight year of defoliation, and even healthy...