Word: potter
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...consumer but not much for the consumer," says Greg Simon, the chief domestic-policy adviser to Vice President Al Gore. Simon argues that allowing media moguls such unrestricted privileges would create "the Pottersville effect," after the dream sequence in It's a Wonderful Life. "Jimmy Stewart comes back, and Potter owns the whole town," Simon says. "That's what we're talking about here...
...Basinger is a natural as FAD-TV's star fashion reporter, Kitty Potter, a dizzy blonde with a pronounced Southern accent. The studio publicity for "Ready to Wear" gushes that Basinger only had ten days of preparation time for the role--what an agonizing stretch it must have been for her. Kitty is meant to be our Virgil, adding structure and guiding us through the pitfalls of fashion hell. But Basinger, like Altman, his actors and audience, gives up trying to understand what's going on and instead enjoys the spectacle...
...memoirist (A Better Class of Person). More important, it stoked a ferment in a then sleepy popular culture. Anger's curdling inflections and class animosities were echoed in the plays of Joe Orton and Edward Albee (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a direct descendant), in Dennis Potter's savage TV scripts and in a generation of performers, from Albert Finney to the Beatles, whom Osborne's example encouraged to speak in their own rude voices. He was the first to cry fire in a crowded London theater. From Anger on, no sexual or social rancor was off limits...
...idea for the eye test came from Huntington Potter, a neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School, who ingeniously followed up on an observation about people with Down syndrome, a genetic disorder that causes mental retardation. Potter knew that almost all Down patients who live long enough eventually develop brain lesions identical to those detected in autopsies of Alzheimer's sufferers. By scouring the scientific literature, he learned that people with Down syndrome are very sensitive to tropicamide, the drug used to dilate the pupil of the eye. Potter then approached Leonard Scinto, a neuroscientist now at Brigham and Women's Hospital...
Just as important, researchers are testing drugs that may slow mental deterioration in Alzheimer's patients. For those medications to work, however, physicians must administer them before there is any memory loss. "Otherwise, there isn't enough brain left for the drugs to work," Scinto notes. He and Potter plan to study 400 patients over the next year. If the eye test lives up to expectations, it could be on the market within the next two years...