Word: jims
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jim, your book The Double Helix, in which you colorfully described the events leading to the unveiling of DNA, gave many people their first glimpse of the human side of science -- the competition, the egos, the jealousies. In retrospect, do you wish you had written any sections differently...
Crick: Oh, it did. When Jim read me a chapter in a restaurant, I thought nobody will want to read all this stuff. You see how wrong I was. It wasn't what I would call a scholarly account. I objected to it because of that...
Still, these at least are legitimate critics. More and more blurbs are coming from broadcast reporters who do not review films at all, but happily provide quotes for the asking. The trailblazer for these troops was the late Jim Whaley, host for an Atlanta public-TV interview show whose effusive quotes were a movie marketer's dream. Today some of the most popular blurbers are entertainment reporters like ABC radio's Bill Diehl ("inspired, fascinating and profound," he cheered for Swing Kids) and Hollywood interviewer Jeanne Wolf ("one of the great classic romantic adventures," she raved of Sommersby). The message...
...Island, where Watson, host of the glittering symposium, has served as director for 25 years. The appearance of the reclusive Crick helped highlight the event; he seldom ventures forth from California's Salk Institute for Biological Studies, where for the past 17 years he has been studying the brain. "Jim is an administrator and manager," Crick explains. "I'm still caught up in research...
...world disorder. Every cult is a kind of nation. The citadels bristle with intolerant clarities of doctrine -- and with high-caliber weapons. Outside Waco, Texas, a cult called the Branch Davidians, apocalyptic and armed to the teeth, played out a siege drama that owed something to Jim Jones' last hours, when he and more than 900 members of his People's Temple cult died in Guyana, and to some older religious Americana, like Elmer Gantry, darkened with touches of the Road Warrior. The tragedy in Texas was self-contained, and seemed a familiar story of what happens when a group...