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...some of Vellucci's contests with theUniversity have had far more serious overtones. In1976, Vellucci initiated a council inquiry intoHarvard's construction of a new laboratory forexperiments with recombinant DNA, touching off atown-gown battle that focused national attentionon Cambridge...
...today's conflicts between town and gown seem contentious and bitter, they pale in comparison to the titanic struggle the two giants fought in the fall of 1938. That was the year when the Cambridge City Council voted to "secede" from the University...
...essays demonstrate the remarkable range of his interests, from children's games to the genius of Rabelais to the dissatisfactions of playing chess against a computer to the question of why butterflies are considered beautiful. And his mind is agile. When he discovers that the framework of a crinoline gown in the Kremlin museum contains a tube that used to be filled with honey to catch stray fleas, he reflects on how the flea learned to jump 100 times its own length...
...Broadway hit The Miss Firecracker Contest, a seamstress named Popeye Jackson explained that as a child she "used to make little outfits for the bullfrogs that lived out around our yard." In this expansive adaptation, Popeye (Alfre Woodard) displays one such frog, cunningly coutured in a nurse's gown with matching stethoscope. Ah, the glamorous realism of the cinema! It's cute...
...film offer the easy pleasures of a conventional movie bio. Earl Mac Rauch's script mixes fantasy and fact in an ambitious, if muddled, attempt at surrealistic psychodrama. In the opening scene, the dead Belushi (played by newcomer Michael Chiklis) wakes up in a morgue, escapes in a gown resembling the toga he wore in Animal House and meets a guardian angel in the guise of a taxi driver (Ray Sharkey). Their conversations are intermingled with time- jumbled flashbacks of Belushi's life, snippets of his comedy material and scenes of Woodward pursuing the story...