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...blurts, which gives them a certain spurious energy. His scripts, which hover dangerously close to illiteracy, contain outrageously pedestrian dialogue, mostly shouted. ("Get Dr. Brookmyre a gas mask!") The plot of The Crazies is a graft off The Andromeda Strain, wherein a virus that the Government has perfected for germ warfare somehow escapes and drives the citizens of Evans City, Pa., out of their gourds. The performances, mostly by amateurs, with a sprinkling of peripheral professionals, suggest that Pittsburgh is no hotbed of undiscovered talent...
...recognized that milkmaids who frequently came in contact with cows suffering from cowpox seldom contracted smallpox. Scientists began to suspect that the body had a mechanism for identifying and combatting disease agents only after Louis Pasteur discovered the existence of bacteria and in the 1850s propounded the germ theory of disease...
...from afar. He takes all the passion out of sex and leaves the tingles in. Emotions are distilled and cooled--the stakes are never high enough, the risks never dangerous enough to justify Frederic's final melodramatic reconciliation. The moral dilemma is but a petty adulterous desire, just the germ of a story. And Rohmer strains it into artistic proportions it doesn't deserve. In the end, Frederic's irresolution makes him into less of a man. He hoards the familiar and circumscribed life he knows; and it is only a bourgeois convention that compells him to love his wife...
HEALTH-FOOD fans live on more than wheat germ alone. Breakfast can include organic apple juice, Granola with skim milk and buttered protein-enriched toast. Lunch may well be almond butter on whole-wheat bread or peanut butter, bananas and berries on date-nut bread. Spinach noodles with scrambled eggs provide bulk and only 250 calories. It even leaves room for a dessert of dietetic ice cream, a bargain at 125 calories...
Adelle, as her followers call her, has been raising just that for years. One of the earliest supporters of the natural-food movement, she follows a diet of fruit, home-grown vegetables, raw milk, eggs and cheese, makes her own cereal from oatmeal, almonds and wheat germ. She also fortifies her diet by taking no fewer than six vitamins and supplements after each meal-to make up for any nutrients missing from her foods or destroyed in their preparation...