Word: maxed
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Especially hopeful news came from the laboratory of Dr. Myron ("Max") Essex at the Harvard School of Public Health. Addressing a meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in Washington, Essex announced that he, together with colleagues in Senegal and Tours, France, had isolated a new virus that is "closely related" to the AIDS virus but has several significant distinguishing traits. The virus, which was isolated from blood samples taken from Senegalese prostitutes, is structurally similar to the AIDS virus but even more closely connected to a virus that infects certain African monkeys. Says Essex: "We believe...
Robert O. Bork '89 agreed, and said that the movies offered tend to be classics of his type such as "Mad Max" and the "Road Warrior...
Next day the Haitian military, which had tried to keep a low profile, began cracking down in the capital. Lieut. General Henri Namphy, the council president and commander of the armed forces who succeeded Duvalier, announced that two more council members, Colonel Max Valles and Alix Cineas, and the government's military adviser, Colonel Prosper Avris, had stepped down. All three men were closely associated with the Duvalier dictatorship, and their appointment had stirred considerable bitterness...
...Council of Government was Lieut. General Henri Namphy, 53, the commander of Duvalier's armed forces. In a five- minute television appearance, Namphy affirmed that the council would make "a commitment to human rights" but set no timetable for new elections. The other military members of the junta: Colonels Max Valles and William Regala, who held key positions in the Duvalier regime. The civilians: Minister of Public Works Alix Cineas and Gerard Gourgue, a founding member of the anti- Duvalier Haitian Human Rights League. The council named Colonel Prosper Avril, a former presidential aide-de-camp, as its counselor. Hoping...
Throughout, Reilly maintains the properly ironic tone. There is no special pleading about British homophobia; Wilde is a collaborator in his own misfortune. Shaw, Max Beerbohm, Frank Harris and the Edwardian elite are given delightful cameo roles, and the prose has the appropriate drawing-room astringency: Shaw and Wilde might have been close friends "if they only had less in common." If this is a novel with an excess of surface, that was, after all, its subject's salient feature. The important part, as Wilde would insist, is that the thing glitter. And so it does...