Word: scientists
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...movie's promoters advertise the story as a romantic, fish-out-of-the-water comedy. In 1962, at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, an eccentric scientist Calvin Webber (Christopher Walken) and his expectant wife (Sissy Spacek) decide to enter their fallout shelter for just a week or two. But an airplane crashes into their house above, they mistake its rumbles for a bomb, and they end up staying in the underground lair for 35 years. In 1997, Calvin and his wife decide they need to refuel on supplies and send Adam, their born-in-captivity son (Brendan Fraser...
...scientific logic is silly and annoying, but since the movie's premise is already ridiculous--who cares? The first part of the movie is carried by Spacek and Walken. With his pasty face and taped-up glasses, Walken skillfully combines the roles of the paranoid scientist and conservative father. His brief foray into the world of hookers and porn shops is a scream. Spacek is convincing as a perky housewife with secret drunken tendencies and a potential for a nervous breakdown. When they rejoice, they do the twist. Fortunately for the movie, they know when to perk up their Ozzie...
...distinguished and high-caliber scientist. One of the wonderful things he does is bridge the basic sciences and the bedside as his discoveries are applicable to human health," Leder said...
...been the single most productive scientist in the area of neurogenetics starting with his work on Huntington's disease and subsequent work on several other conditions. He has made the landmark discoveries in all these areas," Martin said...
...award is targeted at a translational scientist who has moved research from the bench to the clinic. Dr. James Gusella is one of the few scientists to do this," Dietrich said...