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Evidently, the Hughes relatives appreciated the importance of keeping the empire operating smoothly until there is a final settlement. Indeed, if ever an empire cried out for effective management, it is Hughes'. A patchwork business, it was haphazardly acquired, often when Hughes was in a rush to invest company earnings that he would otherwise have been forced to pay himself as highly taxable profits...
Adjusting the levers on his four-track console, Jamaican Record Producer Lee Perry does absent-minded dance steps on a patchwork carpet composed of Ethiopia's national colors. On the studio side of the control booth's soundproof window, a singer implores "Jah," the black god who many Jamaicans believe was Haile Selassie, to deliver him from Babylon. Seated on the floor are half a dozen musicians whose hair is plaited into myriad ominous, serpentine "dreadlocks." Each man reverently smokes a large, cone-shaped "splif" filled with marijuana, and all nod agreeably whenever the singer alludes to Africa...
...premise of Godspell is the special contemporary relevance of the Christian message. The show's book is the Good Book, and its lyrics mostly simple exhortations to faith; but here the Word is transplanted to a junkyard where the innocents who make themselves up as Jesus' disciples cavort in patchwork splendor...
Given the medical implications, it was certain someone would write a book about the Sloan-Kettering scandal. What was not inevitable was a book as well wrought as The Patchwork Mouse. Hixson, a former newspaper reporter and public information officer at S.K.I., has gone beyond the emotionalism of the Summerlin affair to take a hard look at the promises and problems of big-league research. The result is a cautionary tale that no scientist-or layman-can afford to ignore...
...Summerlin is the true villain of the piece. That role is played by the Catch-22 strategies of modern medical research. Federal grants, which guarantee jobs and prestige, are in decreasing supply. Where cancer is concerned, money tends to go to experimenters with positive track records. As The Patchwork Mouse illustrates, such lopsided philanthropy leads not only to personal tragedy but scandalous science. The dangers of a system fueled by anxiety and dependent on immediate success cannot be exaggerated. The Summerlin affair was only the handwriting; Hixson is worried about the wall itself...