Word: icarus
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...describes its unique, post-Orwellian setting as "somewhere on the Los Angeles-Belfast border." The film's hero, Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce), shambles efficiently through his job at the Ministry of Information records department but lives for his dreams, in which he is girded like Lochinvar, aloft like Icarus, fighting to save a fair heroine from giant samurai and evil, baby-faced thugs. One day he meets Jill Layton (Kim Griest), a truck driver who lived in the flat above the late Mr. Buttle's and looks exactly like Sam's dream girl. To be near her he accepts promotions...
...asylum without a lobotomy. The good guys, the few directors itching to make films away from the assembly line, won one for a change. Universal has an award-winning picture. Think of yourself as Santa, Sid, and Terry Gilliam as the little boy who got to fly, like Icarus, for Christmas...
...heart disease. "Athletes who take steroids are playing with dynamite," says Robert Goldman, 29, a former wrestler and weight lifter who is now a research fellow in sports medicine at Chicago Osteopathic Medical Center and who has just published a book on steroid abuse, Death in the Locker Room (Icarus; $19.95). "Any jock who uses these drugs is taking chances not just with his health but with his life...
Herrnstein speculates that perhaps nature's way is the only way. Perhaps we will understand a bird's sense of recognition, but we will have to adapt the new discovery to an application that man can create. For example, Herrnstein explains Icarus was unsuccessful in imitating exactly how a bird flies so when man learned how birds fly, he eventually adapted the discovery to a machine he could create which looked somewhat like a bird, but by no means had wings that flapped...
East German artists have also had to adapt. The regimentation they have experienced has inspired images that speak powerfully to East Germans. In one painting by Leipzig Artist Wolfgang Mattheuer, a modern Icarus with gossamer wings struggles to fly above healthy, ordered garden plots, where most of his neighbors are too busy to notice. A statue by Mattheuer offers a more telling glimpse of the dilemma that East Germans face. A frightened man, his face creased with worry, is shown removing a mask shaped like a sheep's head. But, as the East German artist explains, "he is just...