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...identify Maine's William Cohen as the son of "a Jewish baker and an Irish mother," implying that a religious identity is one and the same as an identity of national origin. I would not wish to nitpick over a matter of semantics, but this sort of writing could lead to some interesting analogies: Richard M. Nixon, son of a Quaker mother and an American father; Barry Goldwater, son of a Jewish merchant and an American mother; Lyndon B. Johnson, son of a Protestant mother and an American farmer; John Kennedy, son of a Catholic mother and an American...
There is a golden statue-isn't there always?-that many men, and a couple of women, desire. Its origin is Chinese, not Maltese, and it has needles inserted in its body to indicate strategic points to be used in the ancient and trendy science of acupuncture. Why these points are not illustrated in some acupuncturist's manual and why they should drive men into quite such acute frenzies of greed are matters that the film makers have chosen to keep pretty much to themselves. Giddy fun, usually provided by such matinee fodder, is also in short supply...
...real origin of this concern was the discovery in 1953 at Cambridge University by Watson and Dr. Francis Crick that the pattern of all life forms is determined by a double-helical molecule of deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA. Since then other investigators have found ways of cutting a long nucleic-acid molecule, by chemical means, into shorter pieces that can then be recombined...
Private Lives has an exotic origin, an erotic icing, and a moronic plot which forces director Peter D. Arnott and his chief actors, William Franklin Hutson and Jan Lewis, to scramble desperately to salvage a basically nebbish play. Noel Coward, the first English playwright to introduce Henry Ford's assembly line production techniques to theater, wrote the comedy in 1930 while in Shanghai seemingly to pose a challenge: Who could take his featherweight literary sedative about marriage and sex in English high society and transform it into an exciting and riotous evening's entertainment? The Tufts Summer Theater company...
...matter how abstract in appearance Miró's paintings become, they are rarely so in origin. What he would like to do is turn the process around: instead of nature generating art, "the picture should be fecund. It must bring a world to birth." In Miró's view, it can do so if it is animistic enough...