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...BRILLIANT CAREER is almost a brilliant movie. Judy Davis's stunning performance as Sybylla Melvin, a woman who struggles with the career-vs.-marriage option, transforms a simple story into an honest and captivating film. But even her sensitive portrait of a person who has the courage to buck convention cannot completely transcend a simplistic script. Sybylla defies the limitations of Victorian society by ultimately choosing to pursue a career as an author; the film's flaw is not this decision, but the manner in which Sybylla reaches...
Even so, some of Ford's closest advisers doubt that he can win via the primaries at this late date. House Minority Leader John Rhodes fears that his old friend would only fracture the party by campaigning. Melvin Laird, former Defense Secretary and longtime Ford confidant, also believes that Ford should not plunge into the remaining primaries but gamble instead that neither Reagan nor anyone else will win on the first ballot. Says Laird: "I think his best chance, the way I add it up right now, is that the convention has to turn...
America can use green plants to fulfill its needs for oil for "no more and probably less" than the current price of forty-one dollars per barrel, Nobel prize winning chemist Melvin Calvin said yesterday...
...Melvin Konner, associate professor of Anthropology, who did not see the film, said generally African clitoridectomies are a topic "of clear interest to people who are studying the range of human activity." This "is certainly legitimate material for scholarly study," he added...
...management of University Health Services (UHS) Friday temporarily suspended H. Melvin Peoples, a UHS kitchen worker, a month after Peoples filed a grievance charging UHS with harassment...