Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PAPER, in some frenzied script development office, Creator could have been a good film--at least a bearable one. The idea of an eccentric scientist trying to clone his long dead wife bounces like a solid premise for a light comedy. Similarly, the tension in the film between God as reasonable and Reason as god might have been engaging, like the crunch of cold modern science and warm timelessly-fashioned love. And the acting of Peter O'Toole, who worked similar magic in The Stunt Man, should have been able to sustain the tension between the comic and philosophical elements...
Meanwhile, perched several stories above them all, on a planet of his own invention, the Scientist (Michael Emil) fumbles among stacks of yellowing papers that contain the secrets of his final project--a theory unifying the fields of nature...
Enter the Senator (Tony Curtis), who badgers the scientist about attending a Congressional hearing. Curtis plays his role to the hilt and turns in an energetic performance in his most substantial part in years. Nevertheless, the part is all wrong, torpedoed by amateur psycho-speculation about the Commie basher's alleged impotency...
Undergraduates who violate standards of truth and academic honesty face swift prosecution. And just a few years ago, the University was rankled by revelations that a scientist had in a Harvard lab perpetrated the worst of academic crimes: the fudging of research results...
Ballard's obsession with the lost ship had begun decades ago, as a kind of intellectual hobby. "If something's been written about the Titanic, he's read it," says fellow Marine Scientist William Marquet. "He knows her, inside and out." That curiosity received a boost three years ago when the Navy decided to finance the development of a sophisticated submersible photographic vessel, christened Argo (see box). It was Ballard who suggested that the Argo's maiden task be to seek the Titanic. Knorr set sail three months ago, the compact submersible on board; after performing routine explorations...