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...Murray Schisgal sees life as a sickness from which most people recover, and he amusingly deflates the gassy, self-pitying bosh that is talked about it. Alan Arkin, Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson ride this troika of hilarity...
...urban renewal, which is administered so haphazardly that some people do not know from one day to the next whether they will be allowed to stay in their homes; on the long-debated Lower Manhattan Expressway, which has been hanging fire since 1941. "This series demonstrates," says Managing Editor Murray M. Weiss, "that the city has lost touch with the people...
Cytologists (cell scientists) had known since the early 1900s that some animal cells studied under the microscope contain a little dark spot that others lack. Yet not until 1949 did Canadian Neuro-Anatomist Murray L. Barr realize that the spots, which he was studying in cats' nerve cells, appear only in cells from females. Later research showed that the spots, now known as "Barr bodies" or sex chromatin, consisted of one X chromosome - the one that is inactivated after it has done its job of helping to determine femaleness...
...highest praise. Jane Alexander as Nora is first warm with love and later mad with grief. Terrence Currier's Covey is appropriately sharp and witty, while Robert Gaus's Peter stumbles and mumbles about with humor and sympathy. The rest of the players, as well as director Michael Murray, rate equally loud applause...
...Three characters take a bath in a river of self-pitying tears. The talents of Author Murray Schisgal, Director Mike Nichols, and Actors Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson and Alan Arkin make the immersion hilarious...