Word: gallos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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UNDER THE VOLCANO Directed by John Huston Screenplay by Guy Gallo...
...well), are an invitation to the portentous. But for once the simplifying narrative imperatives of the screen and the imperatives of the talent assembled for the effort) have served a difficult book well. In recounting what is either an ascent to Calvary or a descent into hell Screenwriter Guy Gallo has carved a clear path through the tangled subtropic that is Lowry's imaginative world...
...wife Yvonne); ideological commitment (represented by his hall brother Hugh, who was Yvonne's lover); even such mild anodynes as friendship and nonalcoholic amusement. His fate is to touch bottom, literally in a den of thieves, and he is in haste to find it. The intelligence of Gallo's work lies in his recognition that the symbolic values of Under the Volcano's major figures, incidents and landscape are intrinsic and easy to catch. They need no forcing...
...matter who gets the credit for the AIDS virus, there is no doubt that Gallo laid the groundwork for the discovery with his earlier research into cancer viruses. Says French Immunologist Daniel Zagurey of the University of Paris: "Without Gallo, there wouldn't have been any work on this at Pasteur. Their research is based on his initial discovery." Gallo's quest for the cause of cancer began in childhood. As a boy of 14, in Waterbury, Conn., he watched his younger sister die of leukemia. The memory is still vivid: "She was an emaciated, jaundiced child with...
Almost from the beginning, Gallo's interest lay in the world of viruses. Since the turn of the century, scientists have known that certain types of viruses can cause cancer in cats, chickens, cows and other animals. Like all viruses, these cancer agents cannot reproduce unless they infiltrate a host cell and commandeer its reproductive machinery (see diagram). What makes the viruses distinctive is that their genes are composed of RNA rather than DNA, the genetic molecule found in most living things. Because RNA is a kind of mirror image of DNA, the viruses are called retroviruses...