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...doubts about exactly what to call it. Astrophysicist David Black, who heads NASA'S project to search for other planetary systems, theorized that what McCarthy's team had found was actually a pair of diminutive stars, one of which failed to develop fully and became a celestial relic known as a brown dwarf. Benjamin Zuckerman, professor of astronomy at the University of California, Los Angeles, called the discovery "not quite a planet and not quite a star." George Gatewood, director of the University of Pittsburgh's Allegheny Observatory, agreed: "Planet is the wrong word. Call it what...
...story itself) into his film adaptation. The material shows Swann three decades later in life, when the devastating effects of an illness--and his choices--are apparent. Against the background of the new 20th century--epitomized by Odette's rise from risque to respectable--Swann is a decaying relic. Irons gives Swann the appropriate nerve-wracking intensity of a man out of time, whose tastes belong to another era. Through Irons' skillful portrayal and Schlondorf's careful direction. Swann in Love takes us into a mind with few glimmers and little relief from the suffering it inflicts upon itself...
...lack of a strong individual style. For all its harmonic piquancies and orchestral sleight of hand, the score of Francesca sounds derivative-a touch of Puccini, a sprinkle of Debussy, a pinch of Wagner. Further, it lacks a single memorable melody, the essential ingredient that keeps a relic like Francesco Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur on the boards. Its plot, however, is operatic gold. Based on a play by Gabriele d'Annunzio, it recounts an episode from Dante's Inferno. Francesca (Soprano Renata Scotto) is tricked into marrying the deformed Gianciotto (Baritone Cornell MacNeil) when his handsome brother...
...Hanfmann knew that the real treasures lay beneath the earth, and he and his crew began at once with the task of digging, recording, mapping and photographing every relic from the Bronze Age to the present...
...taking charge of their careers in such a realistic manner. And there is a growing, and increasingly visible, crop of female sex symbols (among them Barbara Carrera, Victoria Principal and Raquel Welch) whose firm grips on their own careers make someone as passive as Dorothy look like a relic of a previous century. The achievements of such women do not contribute anything to the major philosophic or epistemological issues of our time, as models and entertainers that is not their function. They are simply in business within a free market economy. Their careers need neither inspire nor offend anyone. Armed...