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...everybody is rooting for the gene splicers to achieve their goals. Were they to do so, they would possess truly Faustian power, not only to make repairs when genetic machinery goes awry, as in such diseases as hemophilia and sickle-cell anemia, but to "improve" the species itself. There may be perils in disturbing a microbial balance that has been billions of years in the making with strange, new man-made bugs. Asks Biologist Robert Sinsheimer, chancellor of the University of California at Santa Cruz: "Do we really wish to replace the fateful but impartial workings of chance with...
...Crimson, you are the woman I desire but can never possess, who traps me but does not fulfill me, who makes me hate and love, who is burned into my brain for no damn good reason in the world except that nothing else is, and because, after all, she must be sincere when she tells me she really does like...
...their auteurs. Peter Frank, the Guggenheim's guest curator, who has a marked taste for indirect and elliptical art, has also included an interesting painter from New Orleans, Jim Richard, 37. Richard's deadpan views of Southern suburbia do not justify Frank's claim that they possess "the most astoundingly lambent light this side of a Caspar David Friedrich sunset." That must be the most astoundingly nutty thing written by a talented critic about a talented artist so far this winter. But they do have a weird, banal intensity, especially in Viewing the Sculpture, 1980, where...
...though they might, at any moment, transform into a Stubbs oil. Polanski even presents the film's little bit of gore with extreme tameness. His relentless diffidence weakens a potentially powerful story. We watch with a dreamy disinterest as Fate designs it tapestry of despair. BecauseTess' story doesn't possess the shock value it had when Hardy wrote it almost a century ago, the film needs more vibrant and innovative direction to involve an audience. Tess is a cold tragedy...
...Angeles Times a year ago that he believed there was such a thing as "a winner in a nuclear exchange." He was echoing the views of some U.S. strategists, including the Hudson Institute's Colin Gray and Keith Payne, who have argued that "the U.S. must possess the ability to wage nuclear war rationally." Alarmed by such statements, some American and Soviet physicians have decided to begin a campaign to dispel what they consider to be a dangerous myth of survivability that may increase the possibility of a nuclear...