Word: quests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beneath commonplace Laminar Flow Hoods and in hospital examination rooms. Hirsch, an associate professor of medicine, is diligently directing a two-pronged quest for an AIDS remedy. "The most important questions from a clinician's point of view are how can you treat it and how can you prevent it," Hirsch says, and that is exactly what he is trying to do. By developing drugs to knock out the AIDS virus, and by determining why some infected patients die while others live, he hopes to move toward a solution to a problem that has galvanized the nation...
...disturbing by-product of the Baby Boomers' quest for personal freedom, for what the "human potential" gurus call self-realization, has been lack of commitment to others. In the 1979 movie Kramer vs. Kramer, Meryl Streep, playing the mother who wants to see more in life than a diaper rash, writes her young son, "I have gone away because I must find something interesting to do for myself in the world. Everybody has to and so do I. Being your Mommy was one thing, but there are other things too." The fact that she comes back later...
...appeared promising enough. A student's view on college concentrations is usually insightful, especially for those readers who may be ambivalent about their own choices. However, Mr. Smith provided little wisdom at all, serving only to perpetuate inaccurate and damaging stereotypes. Though "Pre-Meds" may be overzealous in their quest for grades, I doubt that any would stoop so low as to steal a wallet. It wouldn't even help their grades. Mr. Smith chose only to portray every college major in its worst stereotypical light. Attitudes such as these, even if in jest, serve only to misinform and misrepresent...
...call for "revolutionary" change, I mentioned the word revolutionary in the context of quoting the following statement by Bayard Rustin: "The Negro's struggle for equality in America is essentially revolutionary. While most negroes...unquestionably seek only to enjoy the fruits of American society as it now exists, their quest cannot objectively be satisfied within the framework of existing political and economic relations...
...about $30 million, runs only 89 minutes in its current form, and had its U.S. release delayed for almost a year before surprising everybody with two consecutive top-grossing weeks. But even with this belated victory, why should Scott have bothered making Legend? Because, of all movie genres, the quest epic is the one most amenable to the artistic dictatorship of studio moviemaking. The fantasy world is not a photocopy of any world present or past; it exists only in the mind of the screenwriter, the eye of the production designer, the hands of the carpenters, the computerized Wurlitzers...