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...This was war," he later wrote. In 1964, he published Infantile Autism, a landmark book that argued autism had biochemical roots and upended the then conventional wisdom that it was a child's response to "refrigerator mothers" who didn't show adequate affection. An adviser to the makers of Rain Man--his son was a model for Dustin Hoffman's Oscar-winning 1988 turn as an autistic savant--Rimland also controversially claimed metals like mercury could trigger autism and vitamins could help treat...
...Timothy McCarthy as he introduced Beantown's 50 BigBellys to residents. It's the mechanics inside that makes the trash compactors so distinctive. Each is equipped with a 40-watt solar panel connected to a 12-volt battery, which runs the motor (the battery guarantees that the BigBelly works rain or shine). At 540 lbs., it's not easy to steal. The unit costs about $4,000, about 10 times the price of a conventional garbage...
...Bernard Rimland, 78, psychologist who pioneered modern autism research and advocacy; in El Cajon, California. Infantile Autism, Rimland's landmark 1964 book, argued autism had biochemical roots and upended the then-conventional wisdom that it was a child's response to inadequate parental affection. An adviser on 1998's Rain Man-his son was a model for Dustin Hoffman's Oscar-winning turn as an autistic savant-Rimland also controversially claimed food allergies and some metals could trigger autism, and vitamins could help treat...
DIED. Betty Comden, 89, sophisticated, witty wordsmith who, with rumpled collaborator Adolph Green, helped create stage musicals like On the Town, Bells Are Ringing and The Will Rogers Follies and wrote screenplays for such seminal MGM films as Singin' in the Rain and The Band Wagon; in New York City. Throughout a 60-year career, the pair, who were not married to each other, worked every day, mostly in the living room of Comden's Manhattan apartment, composing stories and lyrics for the likes of Leonard Bernstein and Jule Styne and seamlessly adapting them to music that ranged from bouncy...
...farewell number, "Drift Away," recalls the elegiac mood of "Sail Away," the Noel Coward standard. "Will You?", the pretty ballad that closes the first act, takes its tonic cue from the 1936 Brown and Freed "Would You" that was introduced in San Francisco and reprised in Singin' in the Rain. The first few bars, and the whole mood, of Little Edie's lament "Daddy's Girl," are a direct lift from Sondheim's Follies song "In Buddy's Eyes." Little Edie's second-act fashion statement, "The Revolutionary Costume for Today," is another Sondheimlich maneuver (that's David Zippel...