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...that Lightman didn't stick with Scalopino and Sophie, for the first chapter seems to portend a successful (if not entirely original) intellectual mystery novel, with Scalopino as the fat, slightly revolting genius, whose nut is Lang's to crack, and Sophie as the romantic interest, a nut of a different flavor. In another novel, Lightman might have found better use for his more intriguing characters--Uncle Maury the gambler who tries to expiate himself by fixing the plumbing, Davis the aging, macho thesis adviser who bets bottles of vodka on his own conjectures...

Author: By Karen M. Olsson, | Title: MIT Professor's Benito Lacks Einstein's Grace | 4/6/1995 | See Source »

...could stanch the epidemic in a trice were it not for that old bogeyman the nut case Army general (Donald Sutherland, eyes rolling goofily). Appar-ently a killer virus, the threat of plague, a White House crisis-oh, and a pretty blond child set up for a big bad monkey bite-aren't enough for one doomsday movie; the military has to go bats as well. We can only surmise that back in 1986, when he produced Platoon, Kopelson contracted a deadly strain of the con-spiracy virus from Oliver Stone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIS VIRUS ISN'T CATCHING | 3/20/1995 | See Source »

Pretty simple storyline, or so it seems. One of our Crimson testers generously labeled the game "aggravating." I'd go so far to say that you need to be a real adventure game nut in order to appreciate Club Dead...

Author: By Eugene Koh, | Title: Software Review | 3/8/1995 | See Source »

...from the Vatican both Rome and the papal states. Reclusive is no word for John Paul, but the widely traveled figure whom TIME has made Man of the Year is still deeply and deliberately private. Meaning someone who almost never grants on-the-record interviews. Meaning, journalistically, a tough nut to crack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Our Readers: Dec. 26, 1994 | 12/26/1994 | See Source »

Serious researchers of the issue no more have to take into account the melanin theory than those searching for extraterrestrial life have to take into account every UFO nut who claims to have been abducted...

Author: By David L. Bosco, | Title: Fire With Fire | 11/9/1994 | See Source »

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