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Despite its silly ending, Uncle Harry is worth seeing. Its hints of psychological incest, which are so arranged that you can take them or leave them, are even more interesting in their Hays Office aspects than as drama. The acutely recorded small-town characters and atmospheres, and the intense performances of all four principal players, are something more. Especially notable is Geraldine Fitzgerald's portrayal of the harboring sister-the first role in years which has given this actress opportunity to show more than a fraction of her worth...
Infinitesimal Incest. These paramecium clones, which consist of the divisions and redivisions of one exconjugant (mated cell), are roughly comparable to the aggregate of cells in a multicellular animal like man. But, unlike the very different but interdependent cells in a human body, the cells in a clone are both identical and independent; they must struggle with each other to survive...
...Jennings' experiments in infinitesimal incest have yielded valuable hints on the effects of human inbreeding. Last summer they also led the scientist to a surprising discovery. In his efforts to mate various cells of one variety of paramecium, he discovered evidence that the paramecia are divided into no less than eight sexes. Unable to determine the physiological differences between them, he has found proof that each sex will mate cheerfully with any one of the other seven, but rigidly eschews homosexuality...
...novel: Equinox (Allan Seager; Simon & Schuster; $2.75). The theme: platonic psychological incest...
...tremendous task of holding up this massive plot falls on the delicate shoulders of boyish Ronald Reagan, pretty Robert Cummings, and beautiful Ann Sheridan. Reagan and Sheridan move effectively through scene after scene of intense emotion, suicide, incest, with amazing restraint. Reagan especially confounds the experts with a sincere portrayal of the cruelly maimed young playboy. Only Bob Cummings, who is entirely too nice a fellow to meddle about in the vagaries of Victorian morality, looks out of place, and his inadequate emotional capacities wreak havoc in the climactic closing shots...