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...details; otherwise, marvels like winged flight and the human brain could never have arisen. But very early on, some developmental biologists believe, the linkages between multiple genes made it difficult to change important features without lethal effect. "There must be limits to change," says Indiana University developmental biologist Rudolf Raff. "After all, we've had these same old body plans for half a billion years...
Gibson plays it safe by dwelling on themes always close to the collective American heart. The heartlees but lethally well organized monarchy against the bank of riff-raff with real heart is a mirror of the American Revolution, while the greedy Scottish nobles who sell out the hard-working commoners reflect the American distrust of aristocracy...
...coarseness, of English life. Similarly, the film-maker captures the indifferent cruelty--tooth and claw--of nature with cold, harsh shots. From the panoramic sweets, the camera always returns to the pockmarked faces of individuals in the crowd. This is a living portrait of England, from the impoverished riff-raff to the royal...
Brattle Theatre. 40 Brattle St., Harvard Square. 876-6837. "Riff Raff" at 4 and 8 p.m. and "High Hopes" at 5:50 and 9:45 on Thursday, Dec. 9. "Wings of Desire" at 3 and 7:40 on Friday and Saturday, Dec. 10 and 11. "Taxi Driver" at 5:30 and 10 on Friday and Saturday, Dec. 10 and 11, with a Saturday matinee at 1 p.m. "The African Queen" at 3:30 and 7:30 and "Summertime" at 1:30, 5:30 and 9:30 on Sunday, Dec. 12. "The Letter" at 4:15 and 7:45 and "Another...
...BRITAIN BEEN OVERRUN BY RODENTS lately, or is it just British movies? In Truly, Madly, Deeply, Juliet Stevenson spent a lot of time in bed with large, scruffy rats. The vermin abound too in RIFF-RAFF, a rambling comedy from director Ken Loach. Stevie (Robert Carlyle), an ex-con finding construction work in London, falls in love with a pretty girleen (Emer McCourt) who wants to be a saloon singer. If this sounds like the plot of The Crying Game, don't blame scripter Bill Jesse; Riff-Raff was made a year before Neil Jordan's gender bender. Loach...