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...heavy-handed horse symbolism of the stage version, the critics' court probably would have found Lumet guilty of emulation when his duty called for an imaginative adaptation. Acknowledging his obligation to present a different slant, Lumet has stripped the story of its dependence on icon-like imagery and lent the narrative a stamp of realism that is quite appropriate to the special demands of cinema. With considerable assistance from the shining performances of Richard Burton--his finest in recent memory--and the promising Peter Firth, Lumet has successfully carried out the delicate operation of transforming Shaffer's impressionistic play into...
Advocates of recombinant DNA research have been insisting that potential benefits from the ingenious new technique of genetic engineering far outweigh any dangers that it could pose. Last week scientists testifying before a Senate subcommittee lent strong support to that argument. They revealed that a group of California researchers has spliced a man-made gene into a bacterium, and then, for the first time, used the altered microbe to make a copy of a mammalian brain hormone that can act biologically in humans. The accomplishment brought closer the day when scarce and costly hormones and enzymes needed for treatment...
...great Pierre Cardin, who has lent his designing ways, or at least his imprimatur, to just about every wearable, digestible, drinkable?and disposable ?product from chocolates to chaise longues, may be spreading his talents too thin. His August haute couture show in Lyons was a disappointment, and so was his new ready-to-wear collection. A notable exception: a classic, black, cowled, translucent sweater...
Actually, Billy Carter's honorarium these days runs between $5,000 and $10,000, depending on how badly a promoter wants him to show up. For such fees, Billy has presented the Golden Ratchet Award to a winning team of auto mechanics and lent his sudsy presence to the Annual World Belly Flop and Cannonball Diving Championship in Vancouver. This week he travels to Ohio for the U.S. Peanut Olympics, which involves a shelling contest and other hilarities. A line of Billy posters, T shirts and belt buckles is going on the market. California's Revell...
Less is more has usually been Brigitte Bardot's attitude toward threads. Last year BB lent her ideas-and signature -to a collection of short shorts, dresses, blouses and shirts created by her friend, Designer Arlette Nastat. Their collection this year tends to be ampler as Bardot demonstrated by modeling one of her striped angora sweater-tunics and gold lame thigh boots. She then retired to the seclusion of her St.-Tropez villa to celebrate her 43rd birthday...