Word: rosetta
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rosetta Lee's set is functional and uncluttered, serving the play well. Lillian Cornwall's office and her table at the Four Seasons are particularly effectively furnished. Director Emily Drugge keeps the actors moving through the setreasonably well. The light design, by Alan P. Symonds '69, was excellent. What with the strong script and the energetic performances by Fortunato, Zelma, Stone and Ellis, this show could have been a grand slam...
...this theme. The state has removed two children (Valentina Scalici and Giuseppe Ieracitano) from their mother's care, since for two years she has forced the girl, 11, to be a child prostitute. A naive policeman (Enrico Lo Verso) is directed to take them to an orphanage, where Rosetta is refused. Thus begins a road movie in which the cop becomes a playmate, then a father to the street-battered kids, and the children learn to trust people a little. A little too much...
...supporting documents from the archives, including photos of artifacts such as dog tags, uniform name strips, helmets, flight suits, eyeglasses, ID cards, class and wedding rings and many other personal items. "At one point," recalls principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Carl Ford, "I suddenly thought, wow, the Rosetta stone of the MIA issue...
...decade ago, scientists puzzling over cancer cells resembled 18th century Egyptologists in their struggle to decipher ancient hieroglyphics. Now they have assembled a biological Rosetta stone that has enabled them to lay out in sharp detail the changes that cause a cell to go from normal to malignant. "The cancer cell used to be a black box," says Dr. Vincent T. DeVita Jr., physician in chief of New York City's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. "But the lid of the black box has been opened, and we can see the wheels turning inside." The "wheels" are genes that regulate...