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Then there's the voices. They didn't use Australian actors-not many lurking in L.A., I suppose, and you can't have Peter Allen chewing the ram-stag mutton and pretending to be a jackaroo. So they all talk either Ma Maison Irish or Rodeo Drive pommy. Not a trace of Strine from magpie to mopoke until Bryan Brown (who plays Luke, the shearer Meggie marries when she can't get her priest) looms up on the horizon, picking the damper crumbs from his Great Whites with a stringybark sapling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Gum-Nut Tragedy All the Way | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

...ma. You probably saw and used that equation in high school--or maybe you avoided the people who did. Quite a few philosophers also used that equation in philosophy's high school era, attempting to prove that everything can be explained with just those four symbols...

Author: By Brian A. Lynn, | Title: Getting Physical | 3/18/1983 | See Source »

Popper is at his best in defining and delineating the various types of determinism. Through a careful study of scientific disciplines, he demonstrates that "scientific determinism" can be applied only to physics--all other disciplines must be reduced to F = ma. The first chapter, with a few modifications, could serve as a basic primer of holistic and reductionist thought, a boon for those intimidated by the concepts bandied about with such ease by those in the know...

Author: By Brian A. Lynn, | Title: Getting Physical | 3/18/1983 | See Source »

...board the aircraft carrier Ranger, she talked to the pilot of a one-passenger A-7 Corsair ("So you are all on your own in there?" said she. "Yes ma'am," said he) and met a sailor called Groucho Marx. The Queen (who is Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom) and Prince Philip, turned out in his Admiral of the Fleet's dress blues, had a wardroom lunch with 50 Ranger officers. The menu included lobster, despite Her Majesty's widely supposed aversion to eating shellfish abroad,* and wine, thanks to a Washington waiver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Queen Makes A Royal Splash | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

Contributions may be sent to the David Steven Braverman Memorial Fund, % Pat Herrington, Adams House Office, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Braverman Memorial | 2/26/1983 | See Source »

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