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Luckily, Kubrick has found actors who can inject significance, even tragedy, into the brash, punnish script. Chomping ceaselessly on a frayed cigar butt, Sterling Hayden's General Ripper represents a curious amalgam of William Holden and Groucho Marx. Yet, the character deepens magnificently, if momentarily, when Hayden stares shakily into the camera and wimpers his resolve to "keep my bodily fluids safe from women and the Reds." Somehow there is more than foolishness here. When the general stalks awkwardly into the washroom to shoot himself, a surge of pity undercuts the laughter. Hayden has almost created a Quixote; the nature...
Five Brands. Even diagnosis is difficult, unless the doctor has reason to suspect botulism. "When we have a suspected case," said Dr. Charles S. Petty of the University of Maryland, "we must first get a specimen of the food, inject an extract of it into white mice, and wait up to four days for something to happen. By then, if the patient really had botulism, he may be dead...
...unfailingly exact. ("We didn't starve, but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.") But the very quality that makes him an original talent-his feeling for the expressive, flaringly emotional reaches of the Jewish temperament-sometimes leads him astray, causing him to inject into a purely naturalistic story the stylized emotional patterns of the Jewish folk tale, told and retold through generations of racial experience...
...that was meant Beckwith's segregationist obsessions. He attended Greenwood's Episcopal Church of the Nativity. But, says a member, "He tried to inject racism into everything. If you talked about Noah and the Ark, he'd want to know if there were any Negroes in the Ark." In pursuit of his obsessions, Beckwith passed out racist pamphlets that he wrote himself, launched such an aggressive recruiting drive for the local white Citizens Council that its officers finally asked him to desist. He also stood in the doorway of Greenwood's bus terminal to block Negroes...
...Moore had an idea. (He found out years later that somebody else had had the idea before him, but had not pursued it.) Why not make use of some of the techniques of nuclear physics and inject into the patient a carefully measured dose of heavy water (D20, the oxide of deuterium, the nonradioactive isotope of hydrogen)? When the D20 and the body's ordinary water (H2O) were thoroughly mixed, the dilution of the heavy water would show the body's total water volume. All this was easier said than done; it took 2½ years...