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...wait. Seidelman has had the wit to cast that uncannily resourceful actor John Malkovich as both Jeff Peters, the mad -- well, anyway, crabby -- scientist who created Ulysses, and the mechanical marvel himself. The former is a ferocious misanthrope, misogynist and klutz; the latter is, naturally and logically, everything his master cannot hope to be. He moves, for example, not with the herky-jerky nervousness of his creator or a too cute movie robot. Instead, Malkovich invests him with a preternatural smoothness. His character is equally subtle. It may be based on the wise-child conventions on which the typical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Making Mr. Right | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

Bloembergen is currently in Germany and couldnot be reached for comment. His fellow chairman,Bell Labs chief scientist Kumar Patel, did notreturn repeated phone calls yesterday

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: Weinberger's Office Delays SDI Report | 4/11/1987 | See Source »

...Health in Bethesda, Md. "It's very noble that he did it on himself first." Yet Zagury dismissed any notion of heroism and seemed embarrassed by the attention. "If I began on myself," he told a reporter from France's Le Matin, "it is simply a question of a scientist's ethics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking His Own Medicine | 3/30/1987 | See Source »

...just a coincidence. Ha! Do they think we can be duped so easily? Americans must defend themselves. Join me in returning to the good old days of marble staircases and horizontal sky-scrapers. We must find alternate technologies before it is too late--please donate money to the Harvard Scientist Research Committee where they are currently developing a complicated see-saw apparatus on which yuppies can stand and bound pleasantly to their jobs when that fat lady is pushed out onto the other...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: The Days of Marble Steps | 3/26/1987 | See Source »

...University's other forest, called Black Rock Forest, is located in Cornwall, New York. It was originally Ernest G. Stillman's private research area, before the scientist donated the 3800 acre woodland...

Author: By David M. Lazarus, | Title: The Sun Seldom Sets On Harvard's Empire | 3/25/1987 | See Source »

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