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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHAT Maurice lacks most pointedly are compelling characters. Neither Master Hall nor his two gorgeous loves, the aristocrat Clive Durham (Hugh Grant) and Clive's swarthy gameskeeper Alec Scutter (Rupert Graves) have much in the way of lively sparks. Clive tries to deny his own homosexuality and even marries. Maurice channels his emotional and sexual frustration into training under-privileged London boys. Whatever they do, however, they remain bland figures taking themselves very seriously...
...laboratory provides subjects and facilities for Harvard studies of human disorders such as AIDS, heart disease, and drug addiction. It also hosts 116 researchers from about 40 institutions all over the world, and gives them technical help with primate experiments. Outside researchers' work is funded by grants for their specific projects, while the upkeep of the center itself is paid for by a separate multimillion-dollar "core funding" grant from the National Institutes of Health...
...research, however. Hunt cites another project with implications for the care of delicate animals in captivity--an effort to determine why captive cotton-top tamarinds--an endangered species--often suffer from ulcerative colitis, a disease that can lead to cancer of the colon. The center has received an NIH grant to study this tendency in about 80 of the monkeys. He says it is not known whether this condition exists in the wild...
...North Carolina Republican Senator Jesse Helms is threatening to block the confirmation of C. William Verity, President Reagan's nominee to become Commerce Secretary, on the ground that the former steel- company executive lacks the commitment to bar exports to the East bloc. But the U.S. is likely to grant its industries at least somewhat more freedom to give them a better shot at winning the lucrative contracts that are now going to relatively unfettered foreign firms...
Scudder appears not a moment too soon, but still rather too late to rescue a movie in which Maurice and his great love, Clive (Hugh Grant), spend unconscionable amounts of screen time chastely twittering over their Cambridge teacups about the Platonic ideal of male love. Scudder also arrives on this pristine scene long after Maurice himself has dithered to death the matter of physically consummating his natural impulses...