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...theory. Says Schwarz: "Experimentalists would love for me to say such and such is an unambiguous consequence of string theory, and if you find it, it's right, and if not, it's dead. But I can't say that yet. They'll just have to be patient...
...their happiness is the reappearance in Emma's life of her shiftless former husband Bobby Jack (Brian Kerwin), who represents bad values as plainly and as boringly as they represent good ones. But Director Martin Ritt seems to labor under the delusion that Murphy's Romance requires patient and delicate explication. Or maybe he is a city slicker seduced by the languid rhythms of bucolic life. For his camera just hunkers down, awhittlin' and aspittin' and oafishly gawking at these less than astonishing goings-on. Field is perky, Garner is wry in their familiar ways, but the film is basically...
...photographs throw as much light on Adams' genius as anything in the text. Looking back in an amiable mood, he has produced the kind of memoir given to noting that a 1944 New York City hotel room was "most agreeable" and that Walter Mondale could be "most cordial and patient" when sitting for Adams' camera...
...soaring sales has come an alarming increase in complications, complaints and lawsuits against lens manufacturers and retailers. Lens-related infections like Melzer's have become so commonplace, says Dr. Kenneth Kenyon of Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston, "it's rare that we don't have a patient in the hospital with one on any given day." In a small number of cases, the wearers develop severe ulcers and scarring of the cornea, the transparent layer of cells stretching over the pupil and the iris, or colored part of the eye. Last year Dr. Donald Doughman of the University...
Fighting an epidemic often means choosing between the public's need for protection and a patient's right to privacy. Faced with the still spreading menace of AIDS, Government officials last week proposed the most far-reaching measures yet to control the incurable disease, recommending that millions of Americans in high-risk groups voluntarily undergo periodic blood tests to determine whether they have been exposed to the HLTV-3, or LAV, virus. At the same time, health authorities stressed the need to ensure confidentiality...