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...defeat and madness. What he liked was the seabed, that other earth, with its plains that weren’t plains and valleys that weren’t valleys and cliffs that weren’t cliffs.” Archimboldi is Bolaño’s overman, a diver walking on Earth who bores through the mist that the rest of the cast seems too nauseous or too stupid to see through. The Part About Archimboldi is the novel’s most ambitious section, and it’s most beautiful. The novelist is Arturo Belano?...
...between the two parts of Joshua’s life—his childhood in the slums and his later success as a lawyer—could set the stage for a movie on its own, as could his deteriorating relationship with his much-wealthier fiancé Linda (Ion Overman), who is also an assistant district attorney. By contrast, the storyline of Madea’s life and family offers little more than anecdotes of her problems with anger management, which she never admits to herself or to others.What makes the two parts so disparate in quality, then...
...Berlin's Third Music Box Revue of 1923. It has a quartet of burly gents punctuating a game of poker by gossiping cattily about clothes, makeup and rivals, and was put on film in the 40s revue Star Spangled Rhythm, with Fred MacMurray, Franchot Tone, Ray Milland and Lynne Overman as the feminine men. I'd like to have seen how it played, especially with the ursine Chamberlin...
...Searching for a preventive for radiation sickness, Richard R. Overman of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine announced that a drug called amino-ethylisothiuronium (AET for short), a sulfhydryl-related compound, has been 100% effective in protecting monkeys from the immediate effects of lethal radiation. AET was developed at the Atomic Energy Commission's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Still to be determined: the drug's long-term effect on the treated monkeys and any possible application to humans. Working on another AEC project, Overman is testing the effect of bone marrow injections on radiation damage. High doses...
...turn came one day in class when a graduate student named Wayne Overman began asking the professor some knotty questions about tensor density, an esoteric aspect of upper-story mathematics. To Overman's surprise, Yates seemed completely unaware of an outstanding German authority on the subject, and more surprising still, he had precious little knowledge of technical German terms. So Student Overman took it upon himself to look Yates up in American Men of Science. Sure enough, Yates was there, Ohio degrees and all-but he was listed as a research director of the Pure Oil Co., a Chicago...