Word: randomed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Random House; 361 pages...
...playwright's ailing tooth was so stubborn, O'Neill noted, that the dentist "had almost to call in the derrick squad." Nevertheless, extractions proved to be the basis of their relationship for the next 30 years. After Commins left dentistry for publishing, including a quarter-century at Random House, he gently but forcefully drew from O'Neill some of his greatest plays. "Love and Admiration and Respect" is a record in letters and commentary of a remarkably creative friendship. Only one problem proves insoluble: O'Neill's third wife Carlotta. Commins takes careful note of her offenses: after O'Neill...
...newly published book may further tarnish the image of the loftily motivated scientist. Nobel Dreams: Power, Deceit and the Ultimate Experiment (Random House) provides a rare inside look at particle physics, a field increasingly dependent on huge and expensive machines -- and on scientists who are as adept at fund raising and politicking as they are at probing the subatomic world. Author Gary Taubes provides that view while chronicling the research that won Italian Physicist Carlo Rubbia a share of the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the W and Z particles, which transmit the so- called weak nuclear force...
...general, Salle's work is just a sourer, more hermetic and manually coarser footnote to a long modernist history of montage and quotation that runs from Dada to Pop art -- random citation from the image haze that envelops us, with some T. and A. for signature. Its "relevance" consists only of the accuracy with which it mirrors the inattentiveness of a culture benumbed by television. Its main debts are to James Rosenquist, for the big, juxtaposed image fragments, and to Francis Picabia, for the unassimilated layering of outline images over solid ones in that painter's late, wretchedly bad paintings...
...severity of the sentence was in part a measure of the social harm Hofmann had caused. Salt Lake City had been thrown into a panic by the seemingly random nature of the bombings, and the Mormon Church had been rocked to its foundations by Hofmann's faked documents. Hofmann's most notorious forgery had been the so-called White Salamander letter, which he sold to Christensen and Gary Sheets in 1984 for $40,000. It alleged that Church Founder Joseph Smith had been led to the Mormon scriptures not by an angel, as Smith had maintained, but by a white...