Word: scientiste
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...particularly amateurish scene, Carruth leaves a steady camera on a panorama of the garage, all four scientists toiling away within. As the garage door closes, it seems as if the scene is going to black out, but the audience is instead treated to a moment of over-indulgent symbolism as the camera zooms in to the garage door to show each scientist boxed into his own window. It seems is if the director wants to tell us that the happy band of science geeks are doomed from the start, but, one hopes, his terrible process of doing so will doom...
...forensic medicine, thought of as so cutting edge at the time, has been so picked up by modern media. During most of the film, one could almost be watching a flashback episode of CSI: Boston. A detective (fine Cordoban leather purveyor Ricardo Montalban) joins forces with a forensic scientist to find out exactly what happened during femme fatale Jan Sterling’s final trip to Cape Cod. The trip that ended in murder. 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. Brattle Theatre. 16 Brattle Street...
...national media swooped down as if this were a great town-gown cause celèbre,” says Brandeis University political scientist Jeffrey B. Abramson, a visiting professor in Harvard’s government department this year...
...Simpson trial sparked widespread concerns that television cameras had wielded an undue influence on the Judge Lance Ito, who presided over the case, says Amherst College political scientist Austin D. Sarat, who is a visiting professor in Harvard’s Social Studies program this semester...
...never be useful in battle against a fleet of ships. There's nothing like the passage of time to make the world's smartest people look like complete idiots. So let's look at a few more. In 1883 Lord Kelvin, president of the Royal Society and no mean scientist himself, predicted that "X rays will prove to be a hoax." When Gary Cooper turned down the Rhett Butler role in Gone With the Wind, he is said to have remarked, "I'm just glad it will be Clark Gable who's falling flat on his face and not Gary...