Word: gamma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attributed to leftists embittered by their defeat in last spring's election, Israeli embassy officials angered by France's pro-Arab tilt, secret-service men disturbed by Giscard's cavalier disregard of their efforts to protect him, Sygma photographers miffed by presidential patronage of a rival Gamma photographer, and old-guard civil servants appalled by Discard's relatively breezy approach to running the government. The explanation that has gained greatest currency is that hard-line Gaullists, who resent Giscard for having abandoned certain of the general's dogmas, are attempting to undermine his popular support...
...group headed by Dr. Leslie Iverson, 36, of the British Medical Research Council's Division of Neurochemical Pharmacology, has been studying the chemical changes in brains of Huntington's victims. The team has found that victims of the disease have lower-than-normal quantities of the transmitter gamma amino butyric acid (GABA) and occasionally-elevated amounts of dopamine. They are now trying to develop drugs that will restore the balance between these chemicals...
...another one who's half a test tube; half a husband--a house half full of rabbit crap--and half a corpse! That's what I call a half-life, Matilda! Me and cobalt-60." In sarcasm and desperation, Beatrice, the heroine of Paul Zindel's The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, screams at her indrawn daughter. At first glance, I wanted to add that Ron Melrose's production at the Loeb Ex is, sequentially, half a show. But that's too easy, too pat. This production has too much in it that borders...
...EFFECT OF GAMMA RAYS ON MAN-IN-THE-MOON MARIGOLDS, by Paul Zindel, is about how a misunderstood high school girl wins adulation and new self-respect by doing a science project even though her mother is crazy, but it's a good play anyway. Lots of high drama and tension and funny lines and that stuff. Opens tonight at 7:30 at the Loeb Ex; tickets are free, as always, but it doesn't hurt to pick them up in advance...
Married. Paul Zindel, 36, former high school chemistry teacher whose play, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1971; and Bonnie Hildebrand, 30, screenwriter and former public relations officer for the Cleveland Play House, where she and Zindel first met; he for the first time, she for the second; in London...