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...real answer is that Venter thumbs his nose at the system and the scientific establishment. He scorns the feigned modesty that most scientists wear as comfortably as their lab coats and tweed jackets. He loves to buck authority (in the Navy in Vietnam he was tossed in the brig twice for refusing to obey orders), and he almost always speaks his mind. "He has no filter. He shoots from the hip," says Norton Zinder of Rockefeller University, leader of the effort to map the genome who overcame his initial hostility and joined Celera's advisory board...
...instead, you look up and down the train, above the heads of the average Joes and Janes. Sometimes, you close your eyes because there just is nowhere else to look. And you have to be careful what you do because everyone else looks up to you. No picking your nose on the Blue Line...
Unlike the original, the new, ersatz Shaft is addicted to curbside justice. He delights in breaking the nose of a handcuffed prisoner in full view of the police commander. He relishes the line "It's Giuliani time!" as he prepares for the film's final showdown--a reprise of a cruel reference to New York City's hard-line mayor that was famously and falsely attributed to the cop who tortured Abner Louima. If that isn't enough, contrast this Shaft's vulgar behavior toward a black woman in the film's only romantic sequence with the original Shaft...
...CHINATOWN Lack of water as corrupting influence. Sister! Daughter! Desert! Water! Hydrating parched Los Angeles requires incest, murder and slicing up Jack Nicholson's nose...
Books have weight and texture; they make a pleasant presence in the hand. Nothing smells as good as a new book, especially if you get your nose right down in the binding, where you can still catch an acrid tang of the glue. The only thing close is the peppery smell of an old one. The odor of an old book is the odor of history, and for me, the look of a new one is still the look of the future...