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...Skating is a really lonely, individualist sport, and we really enjoy the chance to get together and have some fun," says Paul S. Wylie '90, who took fifth place in national competition this year. The Canaday Hall resident will be appearing in the show for the fourth time...
Subsequent experiments showed that the mysterious substance was also present in snake venom and mouse salivary glands. It was left to Cohen, a pipe-smoking individualist, to extract the first pure samples of the protein now known as nerve growth factor. Later, working separately, Cohen discovered epidermal growth factor, which governs cell development in the skin. He also located a protein on the surfaces of cells that acts as a receptor...
...their confessions fit Twain's characters. His Huck was a fierce individualist and a true obsessive, altogether capable of having turned into a bookish Bible thumper. Tom was a rule bender and a blamer of others, entirely likely to feel self-pity rather than remorse for the sexual crimes Sabath attributes to him. This plausibility is enhanced by masterly acting. Cullum ingratiatingly wheedles, brays and whines as Sawyer. As Huck, Scott combines the stern propriety of the convert to civilization with the lone wolf's fearsome force of nature. W.A.H...
Baryshnikov left the cosseted life at Leningrad's Kirov Ballet, where artistic challenges were rare and cultural politics strangulating. "I didn't have the patience, and I'm not smart enough," he says. "I love that country and those people, but I am an individualist, and there it is a crime...
...voices, and a little hell, against the Viet Nam War (Hair, 1979). A black man is driven by righteousness to lead an armed revolt against white America (Ragtime, 1981). A great but graceless composer battles the musical establishment of Old Vienna (Amadeus). In Forman's American films an irascible individualist is forever butting his head against the walls of official power and getting bashed for his pains. These parables of dreams defeated hold echoes of tales from Forman's compatriots in dark absurdity, Franz Kafka, Milan Kundera and Tom Stoppard. They are hardly the stuff of Hollywood dreams...