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...dazzling effects and set are the entire movie; plot and characterization are virtually nonexistent. Scott, director of Alien, should know how to make believable sci-fi by now. For Blade Runner, he teamed with special effects magician Douglas Trumbull, of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and the dashing Harrison Ford, star of last year's smash Raiders of the Lost Ark. But these three are not enough. The film lacks both focus and depth, and neither electronic gadgets nor excessive violence are sufficient to hold audience attention...
Some people don't belong in this decaying cityscape. One is Deckard (Harrison Ford), a burntout, Bogie-style detective; the others are "replicants," robots of advanced design who have infiltrated the city to find their creator and prolong their short, violent lives beyond the allotted four-year span. Deckard, brought back into service to kill the quartet of replicants, finds it no easy job-for they are powerful and cunning, and he is tired beyond caring. Moreover, Deckard's emotions have been short-circuited from a lifetime of dirty police work, whereas the emotions of the replicant leader...
...Harrison and others requested in a private meeting with Fox that the College provide professional race relations counselling independent of the Foundation for undergraduate groups. Fox said this week that the service will be available upon request this fall...
While the facts presented in "Throwing the Book at Doctors" [June 14] are essentially correct, the conclusions drawn by Dr. Michelle Harrison are truly irresponsible. Because of the current medical-legal climate, medicine is practiced in a defensive way. The average doctor may find himself performing tests and procedures that he would have considered unnecessary ten years ago, but which are now prescribed as a guard against possible mistakes in diagnosis and treatment. When people stop suing their doctors for errors in judgment, they will find themselves the recipients of less invasive and more comfortable medical treatment...
...Harrison is right to decry the heavyhanded ways in which modern obstetrics is practiced. But the problems are not just medical, they are societal. Obstetricians do not build their practices in a vacuum, or by being mean to people. The great majority of women demand artificially doctored maternity. To rely on one's own innate ability to give birth is generally considered less safe, more painful and plain oldfashioned. Doctors have engendered this false dogma, but women have embraced it enthusiastically. It is up to mothers as well as doctors to make our way of birth simpler and more...