Word: maxed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Family, friends and former students remembered the late Max Loehr, Rockefeller Professor of Oriental Art Emeritus, at a service in Memorial Church yesterday...
...weeks the scientific rumor mills had anticipated the winners of the chemistry prize. So when Robert Huber, the managing director of the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry near Munich, received his telephone call from Sweden, the champagne was readily at hand. Huber, 51, and fellow West Germans Johann Deisenhofer, 45, and Hartmut Michel, 40, were recognized for revealing the "atom by atom" structure of the molecule at the heart of photosynthesis, the process by which sunlight is converted into the chemical energy that fuels plant and animal life...
Schrorr twice beat freshman Kio Lippitt in the hole to put MIT ahead, 2-1, just two minutes into the game. Max Ochoa's three goals and Schrorr's third tally left the shell-shocked Crimson trailing by six goals. After one period, MIT already had two players with hat tricks and the Crimson had barely threatened Engineer goalie Paul Wysocki...
...play focuses on Max (Paul D'Alessandris), who lives with Rudy (David Gammons) in 1930s Berlin. Once openly gay, Max and Rudy are forced by the newly homophobic climate to suppress their sexual selves, lest they be arrested for such a crime as holding hands in public. Eventually they are caught and sent to a concentration camp, where Max discovers it is even more dangerous to be branded with the pink triangle that signifies homosexuality than to wear the yellow star of the Jew. In order to adapt and survive, Max must betray Rudy and sacrifice his humanity, though...
...Will these two succumb to romantic entanglement? Well, no. Despite nicely managed temptation, they avoid it, and credit goes to David Seltzer for that intelligent choice. And for a movie that is full of terrific comic material and well-cast second bananas (John Goodman as Lilah's befuddled husband, Max Alexander and Mac Robbins as ne'er-do-well comedians...